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.

• holding that.atrial court is permitted to impose a sentence composed ofa term of year$ 8$.. the minimum sentence and life-imprisonment as the maximum sentence pursuant to· the Supreme . . .. Court's Batts.' decisions
• holding that sentencing court has no discretion to impose anything but a maximum life sentence on juvenile previously convicted of a homicide offense requiring sentence of life imprisonment with no parole and that such sentence is not unconstitutional
• noting that a challenge to the trial court’s failure to provide funds for an expert is not a challenge to the discretionary aspects of a sentence
• affirming Melvin’s judgment of sentence in a pre-Miller case where the “PCRA court found persuasive the ‘logic’ of subsection 1102.1(c)(1) and imposed a thirty-year-to-life sentence” compliant with Batts II
• we affirmed the appellant’s resentence of 30 years to life imprisonment after his sentence of LWOP for second-degree murder was vacated
• When reviewing the legality of a sentence, our standard of review is de novo and scope of review is plenary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Foust
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-21· cited 118×
• Com. v. Summers, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-01-21· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-20· cited 80×
• Com. v. Derrickson, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-10-30· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Blount
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-08· cited 45×
• Com. v. Moye, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-11-19· cited 15×
• Com. v. Given, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-12-23· cited 1×
• Com. v. Nabried, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-11-19

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-25· cited 6,816×
• Montgomery v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2016-01-25· cited 2,780×
• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-17· cited 918×
• Commonwealth v. Batts, Q., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-26· cited 293×
• Commonwealth v. Cunningham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 283×
• Commonwealth v. Batts
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-26· cited 222×
• Commonwealth v. Wholaver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-02-18· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Konias
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-03-18· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. duPont
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-20· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Rhodes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-31· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Fortson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-26· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-03-28· cited 33×