Superior Court 8/20/08 - COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. NICHOLAS HUDSON

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. NICHOLAS HUDSON
No. 3291 EDA 2006 2008 PA Super 195 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 8/20/2008
Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered June 14, 2006 In the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County Criminal at No(s): CP-39-CR-0003989-2004
Before: FORD ELLIOTT, P.J., PANELLA, and KELLY, JJ.
Opinion by: PANELLA, J.
Appellant, Nicholas Hudson, appeals from the judgment of sentence entered June 14, 2006, by the Honorable Brian J. Johnson, Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County. After careful review, we affirm.

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On appeal, Hudson raises the following issues for our review:
A. Whether the Trial Court erred by not granting Appellant’s
motion for mistrial after Commonwealth’s witness testified
that Appellant “had to see his P.O. (probation officer)?
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B. Were the guilty verdicts against the weight of the
evidence?
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C. Did the Court err in not giving a Kloiber instruction?
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D. Did the Court err in allowing the Commonwealth to
introduce evidence of alleged flight?
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E. Did the Court err in instructing the jury on the issue of
flight as consciousness of guilt?
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F. Did the Court err in instructing the jury on the concepts of
accomplice and conspiratorial liability?

Superior Court 7/25/08 - ROBIN M. WYTIAZ AND KEITH WYTIAZ, HER HUSBAND v. DAVID J. DEITRICK, D.O., MERCY PRIMARY CARE, INC., KHALILI NOORBAKHSH AND DE

ROBIN M. WYTIAZ AND KEITH WYTIAZ, HER HUSBAND v. DAVID J. DEITRICK, D.O., MERCY PRIMARY CARE, INC., KHALILI NOORBAKHSH AND DEITRICK METROPOLITAN OBSTETRIC GYNECOLOGY ASSOCIATES, INC.
No. 1219 WDA 2007 2008 PA Super 165 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 7/25/2008
Appeal from the Judgment entered June 12, 2007 in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Civil Division, at No. GD06-2688.
Before: ORIE MELVIN, BENDER and ALLEN, JJ.
Opinion by: ORIE MELVIN, J.
Appellants, Robin and Keith Wytiaz, appeal from the judgment entered following a jury verdict in favor of the defense in this medical malpractice action. Appellants claim that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence and that they were denied a fair trial. After careful review, we affirm.

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Superior Court 7/10/08 - COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. MICHAEL WALL

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. MICHAEL WALL
No. 2282 EDA 2005 2008 PA Super 151 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 7/10/2008
Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence February 11, 2005 In the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County Criminal at No(s): 0210-0192 1/1
Before: PANELLA, HUDOCK, and FITZGERALD?, JJ
Opinion by: PANELLA, J.
Appellant, Michael Wall, appeals from the judgment of sentence entered on February 11, 2005, by the Honorable Thomas Dempsey, Court of Common Please of Philadelphia County. After careful review, we affirm.

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Subsequently, Wall filed a post-sentence motion raising sufficiency and
weight of evidence challenges to his rape conviction. After hearings on May
19, 2005 and May 24, 2005, Judge Dempsey issued an opinion on July 21,
2005, denying Wall’s motions. This timely appeal followed.
¶ 7 In his first issue presented on appeal, Wall argues that the evidence
presented at the bench trial was legally insufficient to sustain his conviction
for rape.4 In evaluating a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, we
must determine whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to
the Commonwealth as verdict winner, together with all reasonable
inferences therefrom, the trier of fact could have found every element of the
crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt. See Commonwealth v.
Sullivan, 864 A.2d 1246, 1249 (Pa. Super. 2004).