Commonwealth v. Pruitt, M., Aplt.

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• holding: under the PCRA, the petitioner waived his claims that the Commonwealth presented “false and misleading testimony” where the underlying information “was known (or, at the very least, should have been known
• addressing a claim alleging the Commonwealth failed to correct false testimony and holding that, where counsel knows the underlying information but fails to object to the testimony, the claim is waived for PCRA review

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Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson, M, Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-26

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• McDaniel v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 2010-01-11· cited 701×
• Commonwealth v. Treiber, S., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-17· cited 629×
• Commonwealth v. Starr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-29· cited 545×
• Commonwealth v. Jette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-22· cited 371×
• Commonwealth v. Cousar, B., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-02-22· cited 187×
• Commonwealth v. Tharp
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-24· cited 187×
• United States v. Daniel Joe Chischilly
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-07-25· cited 169×
• Commonwealth v. Keaton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-30· cited 158×
• Ben Gersten v. Daniel Senkowski, Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facility, Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York
  Second Circuit· 2005-10-17· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Pruitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-23· cited 125×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Pelzer, K.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-30· cited 104×
• Robert Driscoll v. Paul Delo, Robert Driscoll v. Paul Delo
  Eighth Circuit· 1996-02-01· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Blasioli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-16· cited 79×
• Couch v. Booker
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-02-03· cited 68×
• Dan Edward Routly, Cross-Appellee v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-09-19· cited 59×

Other cases named Commonwealth v. Pruitt, M., Aplt.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Commonwealth v. Pruitt, M., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-20