Commonwealth v. Maguire

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing a trial court may not sentence a defendant on two inchoate crime convictions
• rejecting the defendant's argument that “convicted” in Section 906 is equivalent to the jury's verdict: “When the law speaks of a ‘conviction,’ it means a judgment, and not merely a verdict, which in common parlance is called a ‘conviction.’”
• rejecting the defendant's argument that “convicted” in Section 906 is equivalent to the jury's verdict: “When the law speaks of a ‘conviction,’ it means a judgment, and not merely a verdict, which in common parlance is called a ‘conviction.’”
• rejecting the defendant's argument that “convicted” in Section 906 is equivalent to the jury's verdict: “When the law speaks of a ‘conviction,’ it means a judgment, and not merely a verdict, which in common parlance is called a ‘conviction.’ ”
• “[W]here the trial court has erroneously convicted and sentenced an appellant for two inchoate crimes, [one] remedy [is] to remand for resentencing for either one or the other.”
• \Sentencing Code contains no provision for a `suspended' sentence.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-10· cited 225×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Grekis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-14· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Hassine
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-08· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Jacobs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-21· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Hale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-06· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-01· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Orlowski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-07· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Tessel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-25· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-23· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Watson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-04· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Radogna
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-12· cited 3×
• Com. v. Thompson, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-10

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mayfield
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 277×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-18· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Crocker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-11· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Stabler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-02· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Black
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-19· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Bayani
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-22· cited 9×