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  • In the Interest of: K.D.-Z.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 928 EDA 2024

    Where non-verbal victim's gestures were admitted to prove the occurrence of a crime without a hearsay exception, the trial court erred in relying on them and on defendant's confession despite the corpus delicti rule. Dispositional order vacated.

  • Commonwealth v. Copenhaver

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 854 MDA 2022

    Although trial court erred in admitting multi-layer statements under tender years exception without assessing reliability of each layer, such error was harmless as the statements were cumulative of trial testimony and there was other overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2022-08-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 22-0973

    Appellant appealed the denial of his motion to suppress evidence from a drug dog alert and the denial of his Pa.R.Crim.P. 600 motion asserting trial court took too long to consider the matter on remand and court found appellant's attempt to obtain relief under rule 600 failed where his case was remanded for a suppression hearing, not a new trial, and appellant's argument as to suppression was waived for failure to raise it below. Affirmed.

  • S.M.C. v. C.A.W.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 19-1307

    Trial court did not abuse its discretion in holding that it was in child's best interest for appellant to be liable for child support based on the doctrine of paternity by estoppel because appellant had a long-term in loco parentis relationship with child that began when child was an infant, he held himself out as the child's father for years, formed a close emotional bond with her and listed her as a dependent on his tax returns. Affirmed.

  • In re K.R.

    Publication Date: 2018-12-25
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 18-1557

    Orphans' court properly involuntarily terminated mother's parental rights to her children because CYF met its burden of proving that mother's parental rights ought to be terminated and while mother did not waive her challenge to the orphan's court's failure to appoint legal counsel for the children by raising the issue for the first time on appeal, the children's legal interests were adequately represented by the GAL. Affirmed.

  • In the Interest of H.K.

    Publication Date: 2017-10-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 17-1611

    Trial court erred in granting parents request for de novo hearing in dependency petition after orphans court had accepted masters report, when parent failed to object to hearing before master and had not shown cause for rehearing, and thus had no right to rehearing before trial judge. Order of the trial court reversed.

  • May 4, 2015 |

    Rourke v. Pennsylvania Nat. Mut. Cas. Ins. Co.

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis Rourkev.Pennslyvania Nat. Mut. Cas. Ins. Co. 2015 WL 1912914Superior Court of Pennsylvania.Betty L.…

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