Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Williams

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 25, 1989No. 1499PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County after conviction for delivery of a controlled substance and two counts each of perjury and false swearing. On appeal four issues are raised: first, whether the Commonwealth engaged in misconduct consisting of setting a perjury trap for an uncounseled target of a grand jury; second, whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain one of the counts of perjury; third, whether one of the Commonwealth’s witnesses voluntarily consented to allow his conversations with appellant to…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Bank of Nova Scotia v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  3. United States v. MechanikSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  4. Commonwealth v. HubbardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  5. United States v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LarsenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1996
  2. Commonwealth v. WrightSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2004
  3. Smallwood v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  4. Spanier v. KaneDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 2014
  5. Commonwealth v. NelsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990

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