Commonwealth v. Kratsas

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the fundamental fairness embodied in the Due Process Clauses of the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions entitles “every individual to be free from arbitrary or oppressive government conduct”
• holding due process reliance defense may serve “as an exception to the maxim that mistake of law is no defense”
• noting that the fundamental fairness embodied in the Due Process Clauses of the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions entitles \every individual to be free from arbitrary or oppressive government conduct\
• noting that the fundamental fairness embodied in the Due Process Clauses of the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions entitles “every individual to be free from arbitrary or oppressive government conduct”
• noting that the fundamental fairness embodied in the Due Process Clauses of the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions entitles “every individual to be free from arbitrary or oppressive government conduct”
• rejecting the defendant's invitation to construe the Pennsylvania constitution more broadly than federal due process because the defendant failed to offer any particular reasons to support the departure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).