Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 7/15/2014

Commonwealth v. Jenkins

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96 A.3d 1055
2014 Pa. Super. 148
2014 Pa. Super. LEXIS 1786

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holding that we must determine whether the appellant’s actions constituted a single criminal act, with reference to elements of the crime as charged by the Commonwealth
concluding that the defendant’s convictions stemmed from multiple criminal acts based on the Commonwealth’s criminal information
noting that “simple assault does not require proof of any statutory element that robbery does not also require.”
acknowledging that theft charges merged with robbery charge for sentencing because theft is a necessary ingredient of robbery
noting that “a conviction for simple assault may merge with a robbery conviction for sentencing purposes, if the prerequisites for such merger are clearly established.”
explaining that because the defendant’s convictions for robbery and simple assault arose from multiple criminal acts, they did not merge for sentencing purposes

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Judges: Donohue, Strassburger, Wecht

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