Commonwealth v. Merolla

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• holding that the then-applicable sex offender registration statute required lifetime registration for a person found guilty at the same time of multiple offenses, including luring of a child into a motor vehicle
• holding that where the defendant pled nolo contendere to two separate counts of indecent assault, albeit at the same plea hearing, he had two convictions of that offense for purposes of Section 9795.1
• holding that multiple “convictions” of Tier I offenses are subject to lifetime registration
• holding that multiple findings of guilt during one proceeding triggered lifetime registration
• refusing to inject recidivist philosophy into statute; it is irrelevant whether convictions arose out of same criminal episode
• “[T]he application of a statute is a question of law, and our standard of review is plenary.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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