Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Petitioner, v. Rudolph FIELDS, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2013-03-28
Citations: 64 A.3d 628
Docket Number: 
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Petitioner, v. Rudolph FIELDS, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 64
Pages: 628–628

Head Matter:
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Petitioner, v. Rudolph FIELDS, Respondent.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
March 28, 2013.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 28th day of March, 2013, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is:
Did the Superior Court disregard the plain language of the "second strike" mandatory sentencing provision of the repeat-violent-offender statute when it held that the provision applied to only one of the multiple crimes of violence that [respondent], a previously-convicted rapist and burglar, committed in a later, second criminal episode in which he again raped a woman and burglarized her home?