Commonwealth v. Karetny

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Commonwealth is entitled to appeal from an order quashing some, but not all, of the charges filed against a criminal defendant
• concluding that “the Commonwealth is entitled to appeal from an order quashing some, but not all, of the charges filed against a criminal defendant”
• concluding that “the Commonwealth is entitled to appeal from an order quashing some, but not all, of the charges filed against a criminal defendant”
• stating that a trial court has “no discretion” in determining whether the Commonwealth made a prima facie showing of the elements of the charged crimes
• holding that, as a practical matter, the Superior Court's application of an erroneous standard of review is of no dispositive moment where this Court accepts an appeal challenging the result reached by the trial court and applies the appropriate standard of review
• explaining that a catastrophe requires evidence of a sufficient risk of \an extraordinary disaster\ with \widespread injury or damage\

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