Commonwealth v. Griffin

This discretionary appeal requires us to determine whether, under Pennsylvania's recidivist sentencing statute, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9714, a second-strike offender is to receive separate mandatory minimum sentences for a conspiracy conviction and a conviction for the offense underlying that conspiracy, when both offenses are separately listed as "crimes of violence" subject to the sentencing enhancement.1 Consistent with the result reached by the Superior Court, we hold that a second-strike offender is to receive a mandatory minimum sentence for both convictions. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment…