The Superior Court vacated a custody order that effectively permitted relocation to New Jersey because grandparents with custody rights received no notice that relocation would be reconsidered.
The Superior Court reversed a 13-year-old’s residential placement because the juvenile court focused on firearm possession without adequately weighing his individualized needs and the availability of intensive in-home treatment.
The Superior Court held that SORNA II’s nonpunitive Subchapter I requires registration by an offender who began lifetime registration under Megan’s Law II, even though his offense predated Pennsylvania’s registration statutes.
The Superior Court held that a constitutional attack on Philadelphia’s public-carry statute was waived and could not be recast as a nonwaivable illegal-sentence claim.
The Superior Court held that cannabis odor supported extending a traffic stop and, after the driver admitted he lacked a medical-marijuana card, supplied a substantial basis for a vehicle search warrant.
The Superior Court held that a passenger’s nod and glance toward his waistband, combined with a stolen plate and the surrounding circumstances, gave police reasonable suspicion for a Terry frisk.
The Superior Court held that related criminal charges do not automatically require postponement of a final Protection from Abuse hearing and upheld the denial of an indefinite continuance.
The Superior Court held that multiple observations supplied reasonable suspicion to extend a traffic stop for a dog sniff and that the driver voluntarily consented to an interior search.
Superior Court orders a new murder trial over prior-bad-acts evidence J-S44005-25 2026 PA Super 156 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA : v. : : : MICHAEL ALLEN STARK : : Appellant : No. 1648 EDA 2025 Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered September 9, 2024 In the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County Criminal Division at No(s): CP-09-CR-0003952-2023 BEFORE: LAZARUS, P.J., DUBOW, J., and SULLIVAN, J.