Commonwealth v. Shiffler

OPINION

Justice CASTILLE.

This Court granted review of the order of the Superior Court vacating appellant’s judgment of sentence and remanding the case for resentencing, to consider whether, under the Sentencing Code’s “three strikes law,” appellant should have been considered a second-time violent crime offender and sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of ten years of imprisonment; or considered a third-time violent crime offender and sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of twenty-five years of imprisonment. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 9714. The more narrow question upon which we granted review here…