The Superior Court held that a defendant who knew his two-week trial term and stopped communicating with counsel waived his right to attend, but it vacated an illegal minimum sentence.
In a precedential ruling, the Superior Court held that an objection to an unreasonably delayed probation-revocation petition does not implicate sentence legality and can be waived.
The Superior Court reversed a 13-year-old’s residential placement because the juvenile court focused on firearm possession without adequately weighing his individualized needs and the availability of intensive in-home treatment.
The Superior Court held that a constitutional attack on Philadelphia’s public-carry statute was waived and could not be recast as a nonwaivable illegal-sentence claim.
The Superior Court vacated a sentence more than six years below the mitigated guideline range because the record did not support the trial court’s reasons for immediate parole and house arrest.
The Superior Court held that towing a stolen truck, without evidence the driver knew it was stolen before police stopped him, did not establish a prima facie case of receiving stolen property.
The Superior Court held that a probation department petition did not preserve a defendant’s separate request for discretionary early termination under Section 9771.
The Superior Court discharged a risking-catastrophe conviction because reckless driving did not create the extraordinary, widespread danger the statute requires, while affirming evading arrest on foot.
Superior Court orders a new murder trial over prior-bad-acts evidence J-S44005-25 2026 PA Super 156 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA : v. : : : MICHAEL ALLEN STARK : : Appellant : No. 1648 EDA 2025 Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered September 9, 2024 In the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County Criminal Division at No(s): CP-09-CR-0003952-2023 BEFORE: LAZARUS, P.J., DUBOW, J., and SULLIVAN, J.