Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 9/15/1988
Commonwealth v. Stein
Citations
- 378 Pa. Super. 339
- 548 A.2d 1230
- 1988 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2565
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- noting that a defendant “will not be permitted to brutalize his victim and then keep the jury from learning exactly how brutal the assault was.”
- such evidence was found to be admissible where prosecutor in an effort to show motive for witness’s recantation, questioned witness as to defendant’s incarceration and possible access defendant had to witness
- trial court’s increase of sentence upon motion to modify by the prosecution from seven and one-half years to fifteen years to not less than ten nor more than twenty years does not violate principles of double jeopardy
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Judges: Cavanaugh, Sole, Wieand
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3 cases in this archive cite this case.
Cites
35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
- Commonwealth v. AllenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 242×
- Commonwealth v. BuehlSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-30· cited 203×
- Commonwealth v. BradySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-26· cited 180×
- Commonwealth v. JohnstonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-05· cited 142×
- Commonwealth v. HudsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 128×
- United States v. Burl A. Sawyers, Vincent J. Johnkoski, Bonn Brown, Alfred W. SchroathFourth Circuit· 1970-03-23· cited 126×
- Commonwealth v. CasperSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 124×
- Commonwealth v. GeeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-04-07· cited 119×
- Commonwealth v. FordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 93×
- Commonwealth v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-18· cited 86×
- Commonwealth v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 85×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 78×
- Commonwealth v. MauteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-07· cited 61×
- Commonwealth v. NicholsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 60×
- Commonwealth v. FrazierSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 60×
- Commonwealth v. CohenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 51×
- Commonwealth v. PottsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-29· cited 50×
- Commonwealth v. BattySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-27· cited 48×
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