Commonwealth v. Oree

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that when the trial court’s authority to impose restitution is challenged, it is a challenge to the legality of the sentence imposed
• explaining that challenges to the discretionary aspects of sentencing must be raised in a post-sentence motion or during sentencing proceedings, and that absent such efforts, such claims are waived.
• explaining challenges to discretionary aspects of sentencing must be raised in post-sentence motion or during sentencing proceedings; absent such efforts, claim is waived; inclusion of discretionary aspects of sentencing claim in Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) statement will not cure waiver
• when court’s authority to impose restitution is challenged, it concerns legality of sentence; when challenge is based on excessiveness, it concerns discretionary aspects of sentence
• courts utilize a \but for\ test in calculating damages which occurred as a direct result of the crime
• “When the court’s authority to impose restitution is challenged, it concerns the legality of the sentence; however, when the challenge is based on excessiveness, it concerns the discretionary aspects of the sentence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).