Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Cain
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 1, 1994No. 405PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OLSZEWSKI, Judge.
Blaine Cain appeals a one-year sentence for criminal contempt of court. The genesis of Cain’s saga lies not in his own misdeeds, but in his refusal to testify in a Lycoming County drug case. Cain was serving a three and one-half to ten-year sentence for robbery at Camp Hill when he was brought back to Lycoming County to testify in the prosecution of William A. Smith. Cain had received a lenient sentence on his robbery conviction in exchange for his promise to aid the Commonwealth in other prosecutions; he had bought drugs from Smith as part of a sting operation, and now the…
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