Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Charles

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 15, 1985No. 926PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

In this case, appellant, Clyde Charles, a/k/a Clyde Crawford, urges this Court to vacate his sentence of 672 to 13 years on each of two convictions for violation of 18 Pa.C.S. Sec. 3123 (Purdon’s 1983) and remand for resentencing. We affirm the judgment of sentence.

Appellant pleaded guilty to 18 Pa.C.S. Sec. 3123, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, on June 2, 1983, after a 14-year-old boy told his mother, and subsequently, law enforcement authorities, that the following sequence of events had occurred. Appellant, then 56 years old, had asked the boy to run an errand for…

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2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Burgett v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Bullington v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  5. Commonwealth v. CampanaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. BullockSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2017
  2. Commonwealth v. duPontSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
  3. Commonwealth v. MedleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
  4. Commonwealth v. MeoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
  5. Commonwealth v. McKeithanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986

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