Commonwealth v. Judge

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[f]light does not act as a complete forfeiture of appellate rights[. A] fugitive who returns to court should be allowed to take the system of criminal justice as he finds it upon his return: if [the] time for filing has elapsed he may not file; if it has not, he may”
• Pennsylvania court had jurisdiction over PCRA petition, despite the fact the petitioner was not in Pennsylvania custody
• “there is no injustice in refusing to allow Appellant to revive on collateral review claims that he waived during his direct appeal.”
• to be eligible for post-conviction relief, a defendant must satisfy the statutory requirements at both the time he files the petition and at the time that relief is due

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pace v. DiGuglielmo
  Supreme Court· 2005-04-27· cited 4,510×
• Commonwealth v. Doty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-29· cited 249×
• Commonwealth v. Berry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-13· cited 245×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-06· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Judge
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-21· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-19· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Matias
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-14· cited 111×
• Judge v. Beard
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2009-03-13· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-07-24