Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Hoskins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 4, 1981No. 80-3-361PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
2Per curiam
The Court being equally divided, the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia is affirmed.
NIX, J., files an Opinion in Support of Affirmance. KAUFFMAN, J., files an Opinion in Support of Affirmance. LARSEN, J., would affirm. ROBERTS, J., files an Opinion in Support of Reversal, in which O’BRIEN, C. J., and FLAHERTY, J., join. OPINION IN SUPPORT OF AFFIRMANCE NIX, Justice.
On numerous occasions, I have expressed my disagreement with the Court’s use of a double jeopardy analysis in cases such as the one before the bar of the Court. Commonwealth v. Starks, 490 Pa. 336, 344, 416…
3Cases cited19 opinions
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- Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. DiFrancescoSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- United States v. DinitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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4Cited by16 opinions
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