Commonwealth v. Watson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant failed to establish material need for identity disclosure where the underlying defense was “incredible”
• finding trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying motion for identification of the CI’s identity where the defendant failed to present credible evidence of mistaken identity
• “The Commonwealth enjoys a qualified privilege to withhold the identity of a confidential source.”
• “The Commonwealth enjoys a qualified privilege to withhold the identity of a confidential source.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ellison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-20· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-09-22· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Koonce
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-15· cited 13×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-26· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-12· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Herron
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-24· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Bing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-05-19· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Marsh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-06-23· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Roebuck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-31· cited 47×