Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 5/22/1990
Commonwealth v. Woods
Citations
- 575 A.2d 601
- 394 Pa. Super. 223
- 1990 Pa. Super. LEXIS 955
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that there is no constitutional right to a court-appointed expert witness in PCRA proceedings and that trial courts maintain discretion concerning such appointments
- vacating one of Woods’s inchoate convictions under Section 906, but declining to remand for resentencing because that conviction ran concurrently to his other inchoate conviction
- noting that “recantation testimony is highly suspect”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Cavanaugh, Johnson, Hoffman
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6 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. BoylesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-29· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. CarterSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-01· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-22· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. RosaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-03· cited 5×
- Commonwealth v. GainesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-25· cited 3×
- Commonwealth v. United StatesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-17· cited 2×
Cites
18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. PeterkinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-25· cited 215×
- Commonwealth v. DavisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 191×
- Commonwealth v. ScottSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-20· cited 134×
- Commonwealth v. NashSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 46×
- Commonwealth v. TingleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-11· cited 42×
- Commonwealth v. GelormoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-13· cited 40×
- Commonwealth v. NelsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. GonzalesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-05· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. BraceroSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-09· cited 29×
- Commonwealth v. PolkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-04· cited 28×
- Commonwealth v. BlagmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-31· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-25· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. GriffinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-29· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. WarrenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. RossSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 10×
- Commonwealth v. DavisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-22· cited 8×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-09· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. WoodsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-22· cited 1×
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