Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Tolassi

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 20, 1978No. 162/172PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CERCONE, Judge:

The instant appeal follows appellants’ convictions for various offenses arising from the destruction of a construction site in Montgomery County on June 5, 1972. There is no reason to set forth at length the facts of the incident in this opinion, as we have already done so in the related case of Commonwealth v. Reeves, 479 Pa.Super. 146, 387 A.2d 877 (1978). Suffice it to say that the investigation of the incident and the trials of those accused of participating in it were long and arduous. Because of the verisimilitude of the two trials many of the issues raised on appeal in…

2Cases cited30 opinions

  1. Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Roviaro v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  4. Foster v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  5. Commonwealth v. KloiberSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1954

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. HassineSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  2. Commonwealth v. TolassiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
  3. Commonwealth v. HammSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  4. Commonwealth v. GelormoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  5. Commonwealth v. BrookinsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2010

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