Commonwealth v. Melvin

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a violation of Rule 647 requires reversal only where the defendant establishes that she was prejudiced
• holding that challenges to the credibility of a witness go to the weight of the evidence, not its sufficiency
• holding that the defendant failed to establish prejudice where the defendant “offer[ed] no explication as to what the contents of [an alternate closing argument] would have included or what evidence could have been referenced in support thereof”
• stating that “[t]he Commonwealth may sustain its burden of proving every element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt by means of wholly circumstantial evidence.”
• explaining that challenges to the credibility of a witness’s testimony go to the weight of the evidence and not its sufficiency
• explaining that challenges to the credibility of a witness’s testimony go to the weight of the evidence and not sufficiency

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