Commonwealth v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• § 6354(b)(1) not only allows but requires consideration of defendant’s juvenile record in fashioning appropriate sentence
• Pennsylvania Juvenile Act itself carves out an exception to the use of a juvenile’s record in a subsequent adult.proceeding; senténcing court required to consider juvenile adjudications under sentencing guidelines
• “[A] child who continues his pattern of serious and violent anti-social activity into adulthood, should not receive the benefit of a cloak of immunity regarding that behavior, when it is relevant to predicting future behavior and the public safety is at risk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lilley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-21· cited 304×
• Commonwealth v. Krum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-02· cited 142×
• United States v. Nancy Bucaro, Larry Lawrence, George Jose Turner, Andre Rashid Kirby and Monica Johnson. Appeal of Andre Kirby
  Third Circuit· 1990-04-11· cited 44×
• State v. LaMunyon
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-01-26· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Tilghman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-01· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-12-07· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Kuphal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-15· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-04· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-08· cited 2×
• United States v. Slovacek
  U S Air Force Court of Military Review· 1985-10-11

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 49×
• In Interest of Leonardo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-10-30· cited 25×