Commonwealth v. Sanders

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court asked defendant single question which alerted jury to defendant’s failure to protest his innocence at the time of arrest; new trial granted
• Court’s questioning impermissibly raises adverse inference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-27· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-11-14· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Eckman
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 1985-09-24

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-31· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-20· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Nicholson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-23· cited 13×