Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Lease

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 25, 1997No. 01011PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HUDOCK, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence after a jury convicted Appellant of burglary, criminal trespass and two counts of conspiracy.1 Separately, the trial judge found Appellant guilty of the summary offense of criminal mischief.2 Appellant was sentenced to an aggregate term of four and one-half to nine years incarceration. This direct appeal followed in which Appellant challenges the denial of his request for a mistrial and the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his burglary conviction. We affirm.

The pertinent facts may be summarized as follows: Appellant claimed…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. SullivanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  2. Commonwealth v. HardcastleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  3. Commonwealth v. JacksonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  4. Commonwealth v. LibonatiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1943
  5. Commonwealth v. TateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. TejedaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
  2. Krishnan v. Cutler Group, Inc.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2017
  3. Commonwealth v. BrownSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
  4. Com. v. Adams, J.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2015
  5. Com. v. Ambrose, J.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2017

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