· 10/30/1981
In re Anonymous No. 16 D.B. 81
Citations
- 20 Pa. D. & C.3d 758
How courts have described this case
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- discussing the requirement that a defendant must have exercised due diligence for “newly discovered evidence” to result in a new trial
- moving to vacate a judgment before the court has entered judgment and sentence, is premature and cannot proceed
- evidence not newly discovered unless \it could not have been discovered and produced at trial through reasonable diligence\
- “Nor could [defendant] have proceeded under Rule 24.2 because a judgment of conviction and sentence had not yet been entered.”
- “[U]nder Rule 32.1(e), a defendant must establish that the evidence . . . could not have been discovered and produced at trial through reasonable diligence . . . .”
- “Nor could [defendant] have proceeded under Rule 24.2 because a judgment of conviction and sentence had not yet been entered. Like the petition for post-conviction relief, a motion to vacate the judgment would also have been premature.”
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Judges: Harrington
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