Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Jacobs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 21, 2012No. 31 WAP 2010PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
Justice BAER.
Appellant Andre Jacobs was convicted and sentenced for attempted escape and conspiracy to commit escape. We accepted review to determine whether Appellant’s sentences for these two inchoate crimes are illegal under 18 Pa.C.S. § 906, which bars multiple “convictions” for inchoate crimes “for conduct designed to ... culminate in the commission of the same crime.” After careful review of the record, we conclude that under the facts of this case, the two inchoate crimes were intended to culminate in the commission of two different crimes,…
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