Commonwealth v. Perry

How courts have described this case

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

• no intent to cause mistrial despite fact that prosecutor on four different occasions improperly referred to evidence that had been suppressed
• no bar to retrial although prosecutor improperly referred to suppressed evidence on four different occasions
• no bar to retrial although prosecutor improperly referred to suppressed evidence on four different occasions
• reference by officer to suppressed evidence, held, not intentionally elicited by prosecutor, the Court observing that “the error resulted from a lack of communication between the police and prosecutor”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Boerner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-03· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-22· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Beaver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-15· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Africa
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-10· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Yost
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-08· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Miele
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-28· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Palazzo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Simms
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-15· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Simons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-15· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-20· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Watson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-11· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-14· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-16· cited 1×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Benton v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 4,063×
• United States v. Jorn
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-25· cited 2,215×
• United States v. Dinitz
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-08· cited 1,492×
• Lee v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-13· cited 449×
• Commonwealth v. Bolden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 259×
• Commonwealth v. Gravely
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Potter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 83×
• Drayton v. Hayes
  Second Circuit· 1979-01-02· cited 83×
• Matthews v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-26· cited 62×
• United States v. Louis Martin
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-08-22· cited 58×
• Divans v. California
  Supreme Court· 1977-08-02· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Henderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 33×
• United States v. Joseph Burton King
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-03-26· cited 16×