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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 7/5/1989

Commonwealth v. Wallace

Citations

  • 561 A.2d 719
  • 522 Pa. 297
  • 1989 Pa. LEXIS 289

How courts have described this case

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  • holding trial counsel’s failure to object, when trial court did not issue cautionary instruction following introduction of evidence of defendant’s prior incarceration, resulted in waiver of any claim of error based upon trial court’s failure to give cautionary instruction
  • under ordinary circumstances, an appellate tribunal should not entertain a challenge to the weight of the evidence since their examination is confined to the “cold record”
  • claim that court erred in failing to issue cautionary instruction waived where court offered to give charge and counsel failed to \take a stand\ on issue and failed to object when cautionary charge was not forthcoming
  • claim that trial court erred in failing to issue cautionary instruction waived where court offered to give charge and counsel failed to \take a stand\ on issue and failed to object when cautionary charge was not forthcoming
  • claim that trial court erred in failing to issue cautionary instruction waived where court offered to give charge and counsel failed to “take a stand” on issue and failed to object when cautionary charge was not forthcoming
  • claim that court erred in failing to issue cautionary instruction waived where court offered to give charge and counsel failed to “take a stand” on issue and failed to object when cautionary charge was not forthcoming

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Zappala, Papadakos, Stout, Former

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