Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Winter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 20, 1984No. 346-348PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WICKERSHAM, Judge:
This is a consolidated appeal from orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Fulton County, denying the appellants’ pre-trial motions to dismiss based on double jeopardy/collateral estoppel grounds. 1
The facts are not in dispute. The appellants, Roger Winter, Matt Hill, and Ferron Cromwell, were charged with having committed several burglaries and theft related offenses in Fulton County as part of a multi-county 2 burglary ring operating in. south-central Pennsylvania in 1980-81.
One of the appellants, Ferron Cromwell, was tried in the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County on…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Ashe v. SwensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Benton v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Standefer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Commonwealth v. BoldenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Commonwealth v. StarksSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BradfieldSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
- Commonwealth v. ToddSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
- Commonwealth v. CromwellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
- Commonwealth v. RendeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
- Com. v. Postie, F.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2015
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