Commonwealth v. Sims

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• indicating that the Commonwealth raised a substantial question when it claimed that the trial court unreasonably relied on certain factors to impose a sentence below the mitigated range of the guidelines and that the circumstances did not support such downward deviation
• claim that factors court relied on to deviate from guidelines were unreasonable presented a substantial question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Paul
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-15· cited 357×
• Commonwealth v. Kenner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-12· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-23· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Celestin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-02· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-06· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Ball
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-22· cited 2×