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· 10/14/1986

Commonwealth v. McClucas

Citations

  • 516 A.2d 68
  • 357 Pa. Super. 449
  • 1986 Pa. Super. LEXIS 12614

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that victim’s repeated sexual abuse by father over a five year period was “not susceptible to being dated within a ‘reasonable degree of certainty’ ”
  • explaining that, because the sexual offenses occurred over a period of time, “we are not prepared to say that the lack of chronological specificity seriously encroached upon appellant’s ability to defend himself’
  • upholding a span of fourteen months because, “Inasmuch as the crimes, in toto, occurred over a period of time, we are not prepared to say that the lack of chronological specificity seriously encroached upon appellant's ability to defend himself.”
  • trial court did not err in admitting evidence of defendant’s sexual abuse of daughter over five-year period
  • trial court did not err in admitting evidence of defendant's sexual abuse of daughter over five-year period

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Judges: Olszewski, Cercone, Hester

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