Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 12/10/2014

Commonwealth v. Thompson

Citations

106 A.3d 742
2014 Pa. Super. 273
2014 Pa. Super. LEXIS 4549
2014 WL 6948150

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stating that the trial court’s curative instructions must be clear and specific, and that the court must instruct the jury to disregard the improper evidence
emphasizing that “this Court is precluded from reweighing the evidence and substituting our credibility determination for that of the fact-finder”
recognizing the trial court’s inherent, common-law authority to correct clear clerical errors in its orders, even after the 30-day time limitation for the modification of order expires
noting that a weight challenge questions the evidence that the jury chose to believe
holding sentence of life without parole for second conviction of third-degree murder is mandated by 42 Pa.C.S. § 9715 even when both convictions arose in the same case from the same incident
finding that if evidence is inadvertently presented to the jury, the trial court may cure the improper prejudice with an appropriate cautionary instruction so long as the court’s instruction is clear and specific

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Judges: Bowes, Donohue, Mundy

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