The Superior Court held that Pennsylvania’s Sentencing Commission could apply the domestic-violence enhancement even when no minor witnessed the assault.
In a precedential ruling, the Superior Court held that an objection to an unreasonably delayed probation-revocation petition does not implicate sentence legality and can be waived.
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.