Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Colon

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 29, 1983No. 2727PublishedCited by 38 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CIRILLO, Judge:

At 10:14 p.m. on April 10, 1977, Philadelphia Police responded to a silent alarm going off in a bar on North Second Street in Philadelphia. They found Antonio Colon and a man named Martinez hiding on the first-story roof of the bar near a place where the second-story wall of the bar had been broken in. The police found marked bills on Martinez which the owner of the bar later identified as money kept in the bar for use in the juke box. After a trial by stipulation on December 12, 1979, Judge Thomas A. White found Colon guilty of burglary and conspiracy. Colon’s post-verdict…

2Cases cited40 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. SheltonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1976
  2. Commonwealth v. MayfieldSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1976
  3. Commonwealth v. SanfordSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  4. Commonwealth v. GenoveseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
  5. Commonwealth v. CohenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978

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3Cited by38 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. CarterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  2. Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
  3. Commonwealth v. DerrickSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  4. Commonwealth v. DrewSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
  5. Commonwealth v. NellomSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989

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