Cook v. Mason ex rel. Mason

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• holding that an intent to maintain conscious dominion may be inferred from the totality of the circumstances, and circumstantial evidence may be used to establish a defendant’s possession of drugs or contraband
• concluding that police officers, executing a valid search warrant, properly seized items that were not listed in the search warrant, but matched the description of items stolen in the robberies under investigation
• recognizing as a substantial question a claim that a sentencing court failed to consider defendant’s rehabilitative needs in imposing a manifestly excessive sentence
• holding, where Commonwealth conceded the defendant raised a substantial question, that trial court did not abuse its discretion in imposing a de facto life sentence comprised of multiple consecutive sentences
• observing that a bald or generic assertion that a sentence is excessive does not, by itself, raise a substantial question justifying this Court’s review of the merits of the underlying claim
• observing that a bald or generic assertion that a sentence is excessive does not, by itself, raise a substantial question justifying this Court’s review of the merits of the underlying claim

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