Commonwealth v. Washington

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, a weight of the evidence claim is waived when it is first raised on appeal rather than in compliance with Rule 607(A)
• finding weight of the evidence issue waived where appellant failed to comply with Pa.R.Crim.P. 607
• ”The present rule clearly requires that [a weight claim] be raised initially by a motion to the trial court”
• ”The present rule clearly requires that [a weight claim] be raised initially by a motion to the trial court”
• where weight issue raised for first time in appellate brief, claim still waived even though trial court addressed issue in Rule 1925(a) opinion
• “The present rule clearly requires that such a claim be raised initially by a motion to the trial court, and Appellant’s failure to do so compels us to find the issue waived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Sherwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-11-06· cited 442×
• Commonwealth v. Burkett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-12· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Gillard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-05-27· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-07· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Petteway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-07· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-12· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. MacK
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-05-11· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Myers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-21· cited 15×
• Com. v. Washington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-28

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-17· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Goodwine
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-08· cited 40×