Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Rivera

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 18, 2017No. 1423 EDA 2015PublishedCited by 41 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION BY

OTT, J.:

The Commonwealth appeals from the order entered May 8, 2015, in the Chester County Court of Common Pleas granting Andre Rivera’s petition for collateral relief filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”),1 and reinstating Rivera’s post-sentence motion and direct appeal rights nunc pro tunc, Rivera sought relief from the judgment of sentence of an aggregate term of four and one-half to nine years’ imprisonment imposed on January 23, 2014, following his negotiated guilty plea to three counts of possession with intent to deliver (“PWID”) heroin and one count of…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Alleyne v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2013
  2. Commonwealth v. TurnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  3. Commonwealth v. FinleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  4. Roe v. Flores-OrtegaSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  5. Commonwealth v. Treiber, S., ApltSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2015

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3Cited by41 opinions

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  5. Com. v. Muhammed, Y.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2019

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