Case ID: a3d_71/html/0250-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent v. David C. MENDEZ, Petitioner.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    July 17, 2013.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 17th day of July, 2013, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue is:

In upholding a sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum explicitly set out in 75 Pa.C.S. § 3803, did not the majority violate the rules of statutory construction in order to avoid what it saw as “problematic consequences” resulting from a straightforward application of the statute?