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 a juvenile’s admission to misdemeanor drug possession did not permit an automatic delinquency adjudication without evidence of a need for treatment, supervision, or rehabilitation.
The Superior Court held that a passenger’s nod and glance toward his waistband, combined with a stolen plate and the surrounding circumstances, gave police reasonable suspicion for a Terry frisk.
The Superior Court held that Greenlight app transaction screenshots were machine-generated data rather than hearsay and upheld a juvenile theft adjudication.
The Superior Court upheld a caretaker’s convictions for theft by deception and financial exploitation of an older adult based on checks obtained beyond her agreed compensation.
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.
The Superior Court held that multiple observations supplied reasonable suspicion to extend a traffic stop for a dog sniff and that the driver voluntarily consented to an interior search.
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.