Commonwealth v. Aikins

In the instant case appellant Ricky Lee Aikins challenges his convictions for burglary and criminal trespass on the ground that the prosecution was based on the same conduct which underlay a previous conviction for indirect criminal contempt for violating a Protection from Abuse order. Appellant argues that the subsequent burglary and criminal trespass prosecution violated his constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy.1 Based on the recent United States Supreme Court pronouncement in Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508, 110 S.Ct. 2084, 109 L.Ed.2d 548 (1990), which I find to be dispositive,…