Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Pasture

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 29, 2014PublishedCited by 172 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Justice STEVENS.

In this discretionary appeal, we consider whether the Superior Court erred in making certain legal determinations leading it to vacate the judgment of sentence imposed upon Appellee Tyde Pasture following the revocation of his probation! We hold the Superior Court misapplied certain sentencing provisions, leading it to give insufficient deference to the revocation court’s imposition of the sentence following the revocation of Pasture’s probation, and for the reasons set forth below, we vacate *23the Superior Court’s order and reinstate Pasture’s judgment of sentence…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. Commonwealth v. WallsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2007
  3. Commonwealth v. ReavesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2007
  4. Commonwealth v. PerrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
  5. Commonwealth v. PastureSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2012

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3Cited by172 opinions

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