Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Longo

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided August 31, 1979No. 709PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LIPEZ, Judge:

Appellant was sentenced to six months’ to two years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to an Information that charged Retail Theft. On this appeal, she challenges the legality of the sentence. We vacate the judgment of sentence and remand for resentencing.

The Information on which appellant was sentenced stated the offense as Retail Theft. It gave no indication that this was, in fact, appellant’s third offense. The Information as drawn was regular on its face and in no wise defective. In the course of the guilty plea colloquy, defense counsel told appellant, on the record, that…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. Commonwealth v. GreerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
  3. Commonwealth v. HerstineSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  4. Commonwealth v. KomatowskiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
  5. Commonwealth v. MosesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1970

3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. BoernerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
  2. Commonwealth v. ReaganSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  3. Commonwealth v. ColemanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
  4. Commonwealth v. SpellerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  5. Commonwealth v. GibsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1995

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