Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the defendant’s stipulation in his plea agreement, that the Commonwealth would be substantially prejudiced if he attempted to withdraw, was binding
• explaining that failure to preserve challenge to discretionary aspects of sentencing orally or in written post-sentence motion waives issue on appeal
• observing that “a post-sentence motion only preserves challenges to the discretionary aspects of sentencing that are specifically included in the post- sentence motion.”
• stating that “the trial court should grant it unless it would substantially prejudice the Commonwealth.”
• “it is well-settled that a post-sentence motion only preserves challenges to the discretionary aspects of sentencing that are specifically included in the post-sentence motion”
• record showed that defendant’s DNA was found in rape kit samples taken from victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lekka
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-05-10· cited 135×
• Com. v. Phillips, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-11-12

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-02· cited 889×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-31· cited 372×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-02· cited 305×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-04· cited 292×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Carrasquillo, J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-06-15· cited 260×
• Commonwealth v. Elia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-24· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Islas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-02-24· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Kpou
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-29· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Root
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-06· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Porreca
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-16· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. MacHicote
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-26· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Rotola
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-06· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Moriarty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-03-08· cited 24×