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Commonwealth v. Price

Citations

  • 616 A.2d 681
  • 420 Pa. Super. 256
  • 1992 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3860

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  • holding that evidence was sufficient for factfinder to find forcible compulsion where victim woke up while defendant was having intercourse with her, screamed for him to stop, and defendant continued penetration
  • finding that a challenge to the credibility of a witness goes to the weight, not the sufficiency, of the evidence
  • explaining that, while a sufficiency challenge asks whether the evidence exists on record to support conviction, an argument that the witness’s account is not credible goes to the weight of the evidence
  • explaining that, while a sufficiency challenge asks whether the evidence exists on the record to sustain the conviction, an argument that the witness’s account is not credible goes to the weight of the evidence
  • upholding trial court’s rejection of appellant’s alternative theory that was based on the location of semen stains on victim’s clothes
  • explaining sufficiency challenge asks whether evidence exists on record to support conviction, whereas argument that witness's account is not credible goes to weight

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Judges: Olszewski, Elliott, Hester

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