Commonwealth v. Ostolaza

How courts have described this case

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• holding evidence insufficient to support conviction for robbery under Section 3701(a)(1)(ii) where the defendant grabbed the victim’s wallet and the victim resisted, causing “a brief tug of war over the wallet”
• stating in dicta that defendant who grabbed a wallet out of the victim’s hand resulting in a brief tug-of-war for the wallet could have been charged and convicted of robbery under section 3701(a)(l)(v)
• finding “brief tug of war over the wallet” coupled with victim’s testimony she was “afraid” was insufficient to conclude defendant intentionally placed victim in fear of serious bodily injury
• physically wrestling wallet from victim insufficient to show intent to put victim in fear of serious bodily injury
• upon an indictment for a particular crime, a defendant may be convicted of a lesser offense included within it
• physically wrestling wallet from victim insufficient to show intent to put victim in fear of serious bodily injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).