Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Green

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 27, 1998No. 45 W.D. Appeal Docket 1996PublishedCited by 70 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

NIGRO, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court affirming appellant’s judgment of sentence for possession of a controlled substance, 1 possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver, 2 and violation of the Uniform Firearms Act. 3 The issues before this Court are whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to preserve the issue of whether the cocaine seized from appellant should have been suppressed and whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to preserve the issue of trial counsel’s ineffectiveness. For the reasons which follow,…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. HubbardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  2. Commonwealth v. YoungSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
  3. Commonwealth v. GibsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1997
  4. Commonwealth v. ChmielSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
  5. Commonwealth v. RiniSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1981

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3Cited by70 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
  2. Commonwealth v. BasemoreSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2000
  3. Commonwealth v. JetteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
  4. Jermont Cox v. Martin HornCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2014
  5. Commonwealth v. PursellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999

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