Court Opinion

ID: 2788833
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-03-24 19:07:07.031635+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:08:17.230996
License: Public Domain

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   ORDER
  

  PER CURIAM.
 

  AND NOW, this 24th day of March, 2015, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
 

  (1) Given the extensive impact the Superior Court’s published opinion could have on the lower courts and prosecution offices in situations where a defendant initiates a statutory summary appeal from a Magisterial District Judge’s
  
   sua sponte
  
  finding of guilt on an uncharged, lesser-included offense, should this Honorable Court grant review because the purpose for double jeopardy protections are not implicated, or implicated minimally, when the defendant appeals his conviction for a trial
  
   de
  
  novo?
 

  (2) Should this Honorable Court exercise its supervisory authority over the Superior Court’s erroneous discharge of defendant and remand his case for sentencing on the lesser-included offense he appeals and necessarily was found guilty of committing?