Commonwealth v. Rickabaugh

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that an appellant’s threat against a witness would have been admissible as substantive evidence of the appellant’s consciousness of guilt
• concluding that evidence that the appellant threatened a Commonwealth witness was admissible as substantive evidence of the appellant’s -7- J-S59013-17 consciousness of guilt
• “we must now consider whether the error warrants a reversal of Appellant’s conviction; for it is well- settled that not every legal mishap prejudices a defendant to the extent that a reversal is necessary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).