Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Pasture

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 24, 2012PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

2Per curiam

AND NOW, this 24th day of January, 2012, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby GRANTED, the order of the Superior Court VACATED, and the matter REMANDED to that court for consideration of the issue in light of Commonwealth v. Perry, 32 A.3d 232 (Pa.2011) (sentence can be overturned only if it results from manifest unreasonableness, partiality, bias, ill-will, or such lack of support so as to be clearly erroneous). Jurisdiction relinquished.

Justice SAYLOR files a Dissenting Statement.

3Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Commonwealth v. PerrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2011

4Cited by4 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. CartretteSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2013
  2. Commonwealth v. RiggSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
  3. Commonwealth v. PastureSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
  4. Commonwealth v. PastureSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014