Commonwealth v. Perez

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• holding that the “successful proof of a conspiracy makes each co-conspirator fully liable for all of the drugs recovered, without the necessity of proving constructive possession.”
• concluding that “[b]ecause the Commonwealth proved conspiracy, it did not need to prove [a]ppellant’s constructive possession of the drugs[,]” as the drugs in the home were attributable to appellant and his co-conspirator
• noting that circumstantial evidence may prove a conspiracy
• “successful proof of a conspiracy makes each co-conspirator fully liable for all of the drugs recovered, without the necessity of proving constructive possession”
• evidence sufficient to prove appellant's guilt for PWID and conspiracy, where appellant sold drugs supplied to him by his cohort
• “[S]uccessful proof of a conspiracy makes each co- -7- J-S43010-15 conspirator fully liable for all of the drugs recovered, without the necessity of proving constructive possession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Garland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-01· cited 263×
• Commonwealth v. Vargas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-31· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-16· cited 135×
• Com. v. Bowens, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-10-19· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Delvalle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-08-28· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Irvin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-08· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Urbina-Nevarez
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-02-27
• Commonwealth v. Lacoot
  Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-03-31
• Commonwealth v. Pierre
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-10-12
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2011-01-28
• Com. v. Winston, W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-06-02

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-25· cited 502×
• Commonwealth v. Bullick
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-04· cited 197×
• Commonwealth v. Bricker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-02· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Swerdlow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-04· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Kirkland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-07-29· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Savage
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-11-08· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Greene
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-09-30· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Conaway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-01-15· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-23· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Holt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-03· cited 17×