Commonwealth v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Appellant’s threats to kill were not mere spur- of-the-moment threats resulting from anger as anger does not negate a person’s capability to form the intent to terrorize, and the Commonwealth presented sufficient evidence to establish the required mens rea
• discussing the focus on the mens rea element in determining whether evidence is sufficient to support terroristic threats conviction
• “Although [Appellant] raised a second issue in his Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) statement of matters complained of on appeal, he abandoned it is in his brief and it is therefore waived.”
• “The defendant’s statements in Kidd exemplify the sort of hyperbole from which the jury cannot properly infer, beyond a reasonable doubt, either an intent to terrorize or reckless disregard of the risk of causing terror.”
• “The defendant’s statements in Kidd exemplify the sort of hyperbole from which the jury cannot properly infer, beyond a reasonable doubt, either an intent to terrorize or reckless disregard of the risk of causing terror.”
• statement by HIV-infected defendant to victim that defendant was going to infect victim, made while defendant was actively trying to infect victim, was not a spur-of-the moment threat and the evidence was sufficient to support a terroristic threats conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19· cited 118×
• Com. v. Weitzel, E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-11-06· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Sinnott
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-06-23· cited 25×
• Jhonathan Victoria Javier v. Attorney General United States
  Third Circuit· 2016-08-03· cited 14×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hardcastle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-10· cited 233×
• Commonwealth v. Swerdlow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-04· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Jarman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-22· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Fenton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-03· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Kidd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-12· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Hudgens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-03· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Swann
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-01-14· cited 52×
• In the Interest of J.H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-04-15· cited 43×