Padgett v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant’s act of taking the victim’s hand and placing on his penis met the requisite physical force requirement of the sexual abuse statute.
• “[T]he Commonwealth may suggest that a defendant was lying if this is a reasonable inference.”
• \The error must be 'of such character and magnitude that a litigant will be denied a fair and impartial trial and the prejudicial effect can be removed in no other way [except by grant of a mistrial].\'
• \The error must be 'of such character and magnitude that a litigant will be denied a fair and impartial trial and the prejudicial effect can be removed in no other way [except by grant of a mistrial].\'
• defendant waived hearing after stating that competency was not an issue
• Inadmissible prior-crime evidence may be cured by an admonition.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).