Commonwealth v. Kozrad

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[w]hen crimes merge for sentencing purposes, the [only] one for which a defendant may be sentenced is the most serious, i.e., the crime which carries the greatest maximum penalty”
• “it is required of this court to correct an illegal sentence sua sponte.” (emphasis mine)
• \it is required of this court to correct an illegal sentence sua sponte. \ (emphasis mine)
• when crimes merge for sentencing purposes, the defendant may only be sentenced for the most serious crime, i.e., the one which carries the greatest maximum penalty
• when crimes merge for sentencing purposes, the defendant may only be sentenced for the most serious crime, i.e., the one which carries the greatest maximum penalty
• “It is required of this Court to correct an illegal sentence sua sponte.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).