Commonwealth v. Mayfield

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court erroneously found that statute was vague for failing to include a specific mens rea element because section 302(c) supplied the necessary mens rea element
• holding that trial court erroneously found that statute was vague for failing to include a specific mens rea element because section 302(c) supplied the necessary mens rea element
• noting in prosecution for sexual assault that § 302(c) “require[s] the Commonwealth to prove at least recklessness”
• assessing 18 Pa. C.S.A. § 3124.2 – a provision neighboring § 3123(a)(7) – that criminalizes institutional sexual assault and importing a mens rea of recklessness
• “[s]exual contact between correctional staff and inmates is obviously rife with the possibility of coercion, both subtle and overt, given the extensive power guards exercise over inmates” and, accordingly, Lawrence is inapplicable
• we presume “‘the General Assembly does not intend to violate the Constitution of the United States or of this Commonwealth’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Thur
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-04· cited 289×
• Commonwealth v. Davidson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-20· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Davidson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-14· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Bullock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-27· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Kinney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-03· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Ludwig
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-19· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Howe
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-01-26· cited 90×
• State v. McKenzie-Adams
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-02-27· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Morgan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-08· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Kakhankham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-10-28· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Sanchez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-22· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Habay
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-10· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Giordano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-05· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Etchison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-01-24· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Duda
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-31· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Feese
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-09-18· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Crawford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-13· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Fulton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-09· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Herman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-25· cited 26×
• Singson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-11-08· cited 25×