Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 21, 1999No. 0053 E.D. Appeal Docket 1997PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NEWMAN, Justice.
The Commonwealth appeals from an order by the Superior Court reversing Theodore Jackson’s judgment of sentence by the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas for convictions of two counts of robbery, conspiracy, and possession of an instrument of crime and remanding Jackson’s case to the juvenile court. We reverse.
Following a certification hearing on January 17, 1995, the juvenile court ordered that Jackson, who was then sixteen years old, be tried as an adult. On October 16, 1995, in the criminal division, a jury convicted Jackson, and the trial court sentenced him…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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3Cited by17 opinions
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