Commonwealth v. Valerio

How courts have described this case

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

• holding, “there is no ‘per se’ rule requiring a new trial for every reference” to a defendant’s prior criminal activity
• finding that a mere accidental observation of a defendant in handcuffs outside a courtroom by a juror does not, without more, require the granting of a mistrial
• finding that a mere accidental observation of a defendant in handcuffs outside a courtroom by a juror does not, without more, require the granting of a mistrial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-23· cited 541×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-18· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Duffey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-14· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Nichols
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Keeler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-19· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Colon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Bowermaster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-12· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. McGonigle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-16· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Weakland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-17· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Coburn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-07· cited 5×