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· 6/26/1989

Commonwealth v. Rozplochi

Citations

  • 561 A.2d 25
  • 385 Pa. Super. 357
  • 1989 Pa. Super. LEXIS 1820

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that there was sufficient evidence to establish the length of a firearm’s barrel from testimony and estimations of size provided by an eyewitness, irrespective of whether the gun was entered into evidence
  • noting that there was no evidence indicating gun had an exceptionally long barrel length
  • stating that “where a defendant threatens to inflict serious bodily injury on two employees in order to effectuate a theft of property from their common employer, the defendant may be convicted of two counts of robbery.”
  • applying the Frisbie rationale to determine whether a defendant commits multiple robberies if he threatens two people while attempting to steal the property of their common employer
  • testimony establishing that gun was placed into envelope of certain size sufficient to meet barrel length requirement of Section 6102
  • “We hold that where a defendant threatens to inflict serious bodily injury on two employees in order to effectuate a theft of property from their common employer, the defendant may be convicted of two counts of robbery.”

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Judges: Olszewski, Beck, Johnson

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