Commonwealth v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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• holding that appellant’s “acquittal of the predicate offense of robbery does not necessitate the vacatur of his conviction of second-degree murder”
• concluding that the “[a]ppellee's acquittal of the predicate offense of robbery does not necessitate the vacatur of his conviction of second-degree murder”
• holding that inconsistent verdicts are allowed to stand where the evidence is sufficient to support the conviction
• holding inconsistent jury verdicts of guilt on second-degree murder count but acquittal on predicate robbery charge did not require vacating murder conviction
• reaffirming that “even where two verdicts are logically inconsistent, such inconsistency alone cannot be grounds for a new trial or for reversal”
• concluding “an acquittal cannot be interpreted as a specific finding in relation to some of the evidence,” and “even where two verdicts are logically inconsistent, such inconsistency alone cannot be grounds for a new trial or for reversal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Talbert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-22· cited 446×
• Commonwealth v. Houck
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-26· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Tucker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19· cited 146×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Moore, J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-30· cited 108×
• Com. v. Widger, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-08-13· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Cruttenden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-12-17· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Baker-Myers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-05-21· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Robins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-20· cited 1×
• Com. v. Stiles, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19
• Com. v. Burton, H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-06
• Rodriguez v. Rozum
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2012-06-13
• Commonwealth v. Gakhal
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-06-30
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Baker-Myers, J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-07-21
• Commonwealth v. Muhammad, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-05-30
• Com. v. Carrasquillo, E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-10-21

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1984-12-10· cited 2,102×
• Dunn v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-01-11· cited 1,678×
• Commonwealth v. Gravely
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Magliocco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-28· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Crawley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-31· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Hacker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-18· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-12-21· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-28· cited 33×
• Marcavage v. Rendell
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-15· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Austin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-21· cited 14×
• Marcavage v. Rendell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-23· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-09-29· cited 5×