Kuklis v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• separate convictions not permitted for being present where marijuana is kept and possession of marijuana
• “Where there is identity between two charges, the imposition of two sentences results in two punishments for the same of-fence”
• violation of multiple statutes without proof of an additional fact is prohibited as duplicitous
• possession of marihuana and possession of marihuana with intent to sell
• “it was not the legislative intent that a defendant should be punished for both possession of a drug and being present where the drug was kept, where the two charges involve the same time and place, and the identical mass of a single drug”
• “it was not the legislative intent that a defendant should be punished for both possession of a drug and being present where the drug was kept, where the two charges involve the same time and place, and the identical mass of a single drug”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).