Commonwealth v. Meals

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided 2006-12-27

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OPINION Justice CASTILLE. The issue on appeal is the proper role of an appellate court in reviewing a sentencing court’s classification of a criminal offender as a sexually violent predator (“SVP”) under Megan’s Law II. 1 We find that the Superior Court erred in reweighing the SVP evidence presented to the trial court, rather than simply assessing the legal sufficiency…

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