Commonwealth v. Lynch

How courts have described this case

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• holding that notice was sufficient where prior bad act evidence was included in affidavit of probable cause and testimony at a prior hearing
• holding that no unfair surprise was present, and the notice requirement thus was satisfied, when the other acts at issue were included in the affidavit of probable cause
• noting that there is no requirement that the “notice” must be formally given or be in writing in order for the evidence to be admissible
• rejecting claim of lack of notice of prior bad acts where defendant failed to demonstrate unfair surprise
• finding 120 day -7- J-S67032-16 mechanical run date was triggered by the defendant’s filing of a notice of appeal for a trial de novo from the sentence entered in the Municipal Court
• discovery provided to the defense disclosing Rule 404(b) evidence is sufficient notice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Leaner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-08· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Feeney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-07· cited 2×
• S. Crawford v. The Com. of PA - 562 M.D. 202
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-05-26
• Com. v. Williams, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-07-24

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Preston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-13· cited 536×
• Commonwealth v. Hunt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-10· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Trippett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-24· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Stallworth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-04· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Booze
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-25· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-10-24· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Mawhinney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-13· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Wade
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-19· cited 7×