Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Wright
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 10, 1985No. 4, 28, 62, 101 E.D. Appeal Docket 1984 and 106 E.D. Appeal Docket 1983PublishedCited by 163 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
The issue in these appeals is the constitutionality of section 9712 of the Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Act, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9712, which requires the imposition of a minimum sentence of five years’ total confinement upon persons found to have been in visible possession of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies. Each of the defendants was convicted of one of the section’s enumerated offenses, and in each case the Commonwealth sought to proceed under the section. In four of these cases the trial court, holding the section unconstitutional, declined to apply…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by163 opinions
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