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.

• rejecting an ineffectiveness claim where the petitioner failed to produce trial counsel as a witness at the PCRA hearing
• rejecting an ineffectiveness claim where the petitioner failed to produce trial counsel as a witness at the PCRA hearing
• defendant’s and defendant’s father’s self-serving testimony was insufficient to sustain a claim of ineffectiveness of representation of guilty plea counsel where defendant failed to produce counsel to testify at his withdrawal hearing
• “The findings of the PCRA court will not be disturbed unless they have no support in the record.”
• “[T]he reasonableness of trial counsel’s actions is a prong of the ineffective assistance of counsel claim which must be proven and not merely rebutted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-03-02· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Bishop
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-27· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-18· cited 9×
• Com. v. Enos, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-08

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hentosh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-03· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Cappelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-01· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-14· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-01· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Dockins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Wells
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-15· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Sauter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-15· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-22· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Siers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-19· cited 11×