Commonwealth v. Perry

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• holding that the trial court erred in failing to presume prejudice where a juror testified that he had a close personal friendship with the arresting and prosecuting officer and no doubts about the officer's veracity
• holding that the trial court erred in failing to presume prejudice where a juror testified that he had a close personal friendship with the arresting and prosecuting officer and no doubts about the officer’s veracity
• denial of challenge for cause was reversible error where prospective juror was “best friend” of accusing police officer whose credibility was at issue and socialized with him “approximately once a week”
• juror who was best friends with arresting officer and who had no doubt as to officer’s veracity had sufficiently close relationship with case participant to compel exclusion from jury as a matter of law

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Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-30· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Blasioli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-07· cited 46×
• Shinal, M., et ux, Aplts. v. Toms M.D., S.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-20· cited 43×
• Cordes v. Associates of Internal Medicine
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-03-12· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Dye
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-12-12· cited 5×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ingber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-06· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-13· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-01-15· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Braham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-26· cited 8×