The Pennsylvania Superior Court tentatively waded into choppy waters when wrestling with the defendant’s double jeopardy claim. The defendant was charged with firearms offenses and suffered a broken leg during
PNC Bank would have avoided waiver had the company’s lawyers hired the ghostwriting pros at Sullivan | Simon. PNC Bank appealed from the order overruling in part and sustaining in
The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled the defendant waived his arguments that relied on Alexander, and the Court affirmed the denial of his suppression motion. The police stopped and searched the
An en banc panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court answered an important question: What must police do to obtain a knowing and voluntary consent to search all or part of
The Pennsylvania Superior Court vacated the defendant’s first-degree murder conviction and ordered a new trial. The Commonwealth charged the defendant with homicide, alleging he killed a man’s grandmother in retaliation
The Pennsylvania Superior Court considered the proper way to account for a pension in a divorce and equitable distribution action. The defendant’s pension did not allow for survivorship benefits to
This case had a procedural history only a bankruptcy attorney could stomach. In 2011, the Smeltzers filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition to restructure their debt. In April 2014, the
With a substantial reliance on Commonwealth v. Sanders, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that the Commonwealth failed to make out a prima facie case of homicide by vehicle in a well-publicized incident where a trash truck struck
The defendant filed a motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds, relying on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Johnson, 231 A.3d 807 (Pa. 2020). The trial court
The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the denial of an attempt to open a foreign default judgment. Appellants signed a settlement agreement and executed an affidavit for confession of judgment for
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