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Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 12/31/2007

Commonwealth v. Patterson

Citations

  • 940 A.2d 493
  • 2007 Pa. Super. 404
  • 2007 Pa. Super. LEXIS 4501

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that, absent certain breakdowns in court operations or fraud, the Superior Court has no jurisdiction to entertain an untimely appeal
  • holding that the clerk’s failure to enter an order constitutes a court breakdown, excusing the appeal’s untimeliness
  • concluding that a breakdown in the operations of the court occurs in instances where the court misadvises or fails to advise appellants of their appeal rights
  • holding that the evidence was sufficient to establish the identity of the robber/burglar where “the complainant identified [the a]ppellant, in open court, as one of the men that entered his home”
  • recognizing that administrative breakdowns occur where trial court, at time of sentencing, either fails to advise appellant of post-sentence and appellate rights or misadvises him and that such breakdowns excuse subsequent untimely filings
  • concluding that the trial court’s failure to advise the defendant of the deadline for filing an appeal constituted a breakdown in the operation of the court that excused the untimely filing of his appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bowes, Gantman, Anthony

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Cites

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