Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Barton

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 25, 1983No. 172PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WIEAND, Judge:

John H. Barton, Jr. was tried by jury and convicted of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. Post trial motions were filed and subsequently denied. 1 He then entered negotiated pleas of guilty to two additional charges of possession with intent to deliver. On August 18, 1977, while represented by private counsel, he was sentenced on all convictions to three concurrent terms of im prisonment of not less than 772 nor more than 15 years. He filed neither motions to modify the sentences nor a direct appeal from any judgment of sentence.

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2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Hill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. Commonwealth v. HubbardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  3. Commonwealth v. WilkersonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
  4. Commonwealth v. FieroSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
  5. Commonwealth v. GallowaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. BellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  2. Commonwealth v. HamptonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
  3. Commonwealth v. LitzenbergerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  4. Commonwealth v. PriovolosSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2000
  5. Commonwealth v. KlingerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983

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