Commonwealth v. Rembiszewski

How courts have described this case

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

• scratches inflicted by victim did not serve as provocation for attack by defendant with deadly weapon
• “The jury’s knowledge of which party had the burden [of proof] did not inform them with respect to the extent of that burden”
• use of examples of family, social and economic decisions in explaining “reasonable doubt”
• defendant not entitled to judicial “determination whether the instructions were erroneous if the issues presented could have been raised at trial or on direct appeal but were not”
• “Our first criticism of the practice was expressed in Bumpus”
• constitutional error in jury charge not harmless where \Commonwealth presented a case based on circumstantial evidence which did not compel a conclusion of guilt\ and \[t]he defendant presented evidence that reasonably would have permitted the [opposite] conclusion\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).