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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 4/23/1987

Commonwealth v. Taylor

Citations

  • 524 A.2d 942
  • 362 Pa. Super. 408
  • 1987 Pa. Super. LEXIS 7727

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that “the robbery statute more specifically intends to punish those who threaten violence or resort to violent means in order to accomplish their goal of theft.”
  • stating that \the robbery statute more specifically intends to punish those who threaten violence or resort to violent means in order to accomplish their goal of theft.\
  • noting that for sentencing purposes, defendant’s convictions comprised one criminal transaction because of their “close temporal and logical relationship”
  • holding trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the sentencing court’s application of an incorrect prior record score, which “error caused provable prejudice to appellant,” as it led to a longer sentence
  • stating “the aggravated assault statute and the robbery statute protect different interests of the Commonwealth as evidenced by the fact the Legislature has classified them separately under ‘Offenses Involving Danger to the Person’ (Title 18, Part II, art. B
  • three criminal convictions part of single contiguous train of criminal events with no substantial break in criminal activity, thus making defendant’s prior record score zero under sentencing guidelines

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Judges: Wieand, Olszewski, Cercone

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