Case ID: a3d_35/html/0003-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent v. Jeffrey Wayne BAKER, Petitioner.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    Jan. 6, 2012.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 6th day of January 2012, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:

Does the 25-year mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment imposed under 42 Pa.C.S. § 9718.2 violate Article I, Section 18 of the Pennsylvania Constitution as it is grossly disproportionate to the crime?