Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Cotto
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 20, 2000No. 160 M.D. Appeal Docket 1998PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CASTILLE, Justice.
This Court granted allocatur in this matter to determine whether certain 1995 amendments to the Juvenile Act, 42 Pa.C.S. § 6301 et seq., violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9, of the Pennsylvania Constitution. For the reasons that follow, we hold that the amendments are constitutional and, therefore, we affirm.
On April 23, 1996, appellant and two accomplices, armed with a handgun, robbed the owner, an employee and two customers of the Mane Magic Beauty Salon in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Subsequently, on May 8, 1996,…
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