Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Kauffman
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 30, 1992No. 673PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIEAND, Judge:
Where the District Attorney has prosecuted a person successfully for a criminal act, may information in the prosecution’s file thereafter be discovered by one or more parties to a civil action brought to recover damages for the same conduct? The trial court held that the prosecutor’s file was not immune from discovery, and the Commonwealth, by special allowance, appealed.
After Gary Lynn Kauffman had been found guilty of committing the crimes of indecent assault and corrupting a minor, the victim’s parents initiated a civil action against Kauffman, the Altoona Area School…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Scher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- In Re Quarles and ButlerSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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- Frankenhauser v. RizzoDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1973
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