Commonwealth v. Robinson

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a claim that “the trial court fail[ed] to make a statutorily required determination regarding a defendant‟s eligibility for an RRRI minimum sentence as required” constitutes “a non-waivable challenge to the legality of [his] sentence”
• indicating that when “the trial court fails to make a statutorily required determination regarding a defendant’s eligibility for an RRRI minimum sentence as required, the sentence is illegal”
• reiterating that issue concerning court’s power to impose given sentence implicates legality of sentence; sentencing code requires court to impose maximum and minimum sentence of confinement per 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9756
• stating: “[t]his Court has held that an attack upon the power of a court to impose a given sentence is a challenge to the legality of a sentence”
• holding RRRI-eligibility claims are not subject to waiver
• claim alleging that trial court failed to make statutorily required determination regarding defendant’s eligibility for RRRI minimum sentence presents non-waivable challenge to legality of sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tobin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-01· cited 140×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Childs, W.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Lehman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-04· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Milhomme
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-07-21· cited 25×
• Sturgis v. Doe
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-04· cited 14×
• Com. v. Risoldi, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-05-24· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Beish
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-09· cited 7×
• Com. v. Coleman, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-01-09· cited 7×
• Com. v. Dejesus, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-06· cited 1×
• Com. v. Rhodes, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-26
• Commonwealth v. Finnecy, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-29
• Com. v. Whalley, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-10-29