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· 7/31/1978

Yoh v. Board of Commissioners

Citations

  • 37 Pa. Commw. 91
  • 388 A.2d 1156
  • 1978 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 1232

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that following the federal district court's vacation of extended term sen--tences, upon resentencing, the defendant was sentenced to consecutive terms
  • recognizing sentencing court's discretion to run some mandatory minimum sentences consecutively and others concurrently pursuant to an earlier version of HRS § 706-606.5
  • agreeing \that a mandatory minimum prison term is subsumed within an indeterminate maximum prison term\ (citations omitted)
  • “[Statutes [that] relate to sentencing ... should be construed in pari materia.”
  • “[L]aws in pari materia, or upon the same subject matter, shall be construed with reference to each other. What is clear in one statute may be called upon in aid to explain what is doubtful in another”
  • “ ‘[L]aws in pari materia, or upon the same subject matter, shall be construed with reference to each other. What is clear in one statute may be called in aid to explain what is doubtful in another.’ ”

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Judges: Blatt, Bowman, Crumlish, Disalle, Menoer, Rogers, Wilkinson

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