Commonwealth v. Knowles

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that burglary of a home in which at the time of the offense “any person is present,” covers scenarios where “a person returns to the structure while the perpetrator is still present.”
• holding “presence” requirement under section 9714 satisfied “where a person returns to the structure while a perpetrator is still [there]”
• \The purpose of section 9714 is to deter violent criminal acts by imposing harsher penalties on those who commit repeated crimes of violence.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-10-26· cited 16×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Eddings
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-06· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Stepp
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-06· cited 9×