Commonwealth v. Weiss

How courts have described this case

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• finding no conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that public annoyance or alarm would result from defendant’s conduct where the defendant yelled profanities from inside her home after the police broke into -5- J-A08024-25 her home
• even vulgar language intended to insult police does not become a crime because people standing nearby stop, look and listen
• “We do note, however, that appellant’s belief (mistaken or otherwise) in her justification in taunting the police would not vitiate her recklessness with regard to annoyance or alarm of members of the public in the vicinity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Groman v. Township Of Manalapan
  First Circuit· 1995-02-16· cited 1,024×
• Commonwealth v. Hock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-03· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. McCoy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-23· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Gilbert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-02· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-06· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Alpha Epsilon Pi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-21· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Hock
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-01· cited 6×
• Com. v. Johnson, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-11-13· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-09· cited 2,706×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. Mastrangelo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-28· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Kidd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-12· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Pringle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-03· cited 44×
• People v. Douglas
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-06-05· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-28· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Bender
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 11×