Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 7/22/2008

Commonwealth v. Sam

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952 A.2d 565
597 Pa. 523
2008 Pa. LEXIS 1175

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noting that Robert Dunham initiated PCRA proceeding by filing PCRA without authorization from petitioner, claiming he was doing so on petitioner's \behalf\
noting that Commonwealth v. Edmunds, 526 Pa. 374, 586 A.2d 887 (1991) “directs advocates to brief and analyze the following four factors when litigating a claim that state constitutional doctrine should depart from the applicable federal standard: (1
acknowledging that both the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article 1, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution provide the right to be free from “‘unreasonable’ intrusions” such as involuntary medication
collecting cases stressing the essential role of finality in the criminal justice system and discussing the General Assembly’s efforts to foster it via the statutory prescriptions for post-conviction review

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Judges: Baer, Castille, Eakin, Madame, McCAFFERY, Saylor, Todd

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