Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Kates
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 8, 1973No. Appeals, 472 and 473; Appeal, 368; 66, Miscellaneous Docket 19PublishedCited by 227 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Nix,
The principal issue presented in this consolidated appeal is whether a probation violation hearing may *105be held prior to the trial for criminal charges which are based on the same activities which gave rise to the alleged probation violation. In each of these cases the hearing judge held, or attempted to hold, the violation of probation hearing prior to the probationer’s trial on the substantive offense. Commonwealth v. Kates and Commonwealth v. McClellan are appeals from probation revocations and judgments of sentence imposed; Allen v. Reed is a petition for writ of…
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