Commonwealth v. Jones

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a police officer’s testimony was proper because it was not offered for the truth of the matter asserted, was admitted in order to explain police conduct, and merely repeated matters covered in testifying witnesses’ own testimony
• suggesting that information about the police investigation was relevant to answer defense counsel's pointed attack upon the adequacy of that investigation
• suggesting that information about the police investigation was relevant to answer defense counsel’s pointed attack upon the adequacy of that investigation
• stating that error is harmless when the evidence of guilt is overwhelming and the error insignificant so that it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the verdict
• stating that although “[ejvidence of a defendant’s attempt to dispose of a witness may be relevant and admissible to establish consciousness of guilt,” and despite witness’ assertion defendant tried to kill her, there was no proof that defendant gave witness tainted cocaine
• distinguishing -6- J-S72011-18 Yates because the concern about prejudice is not present “where, as in this case, the declarant did in fact testify and the subsequent police testimony merely related matters that were covered in the declarant’s own testimony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Chmiel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-29· cited 431×
• Commonwealth v. Montalvo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Dent
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-25· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Wholaver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-02-18· cited 131×
• Luther Glenn v. District Attorney Allegheny Co
  Third Circuit· 2014-02-20· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-20· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Adams, S., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-20· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-13· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Douglas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-27· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Choi Chun Lam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-15· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-04· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-24· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-17· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Vitale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-23· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Whiting
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-09· cited 7×
• Com. v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-20

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Claypool
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-26· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Robson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Palsa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-06· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Yates
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Markle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 11×