COMMONWEALTH v. COTTO


753 A.2d 217 (2000)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Abraham Martinez COTTO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 20, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Karl, Chief Public Defender, Office of the Public Defender, Mark Scott Sedley, Asst. Defender, Defender's Association of Phila., for Abraham Martinez Cotto.

Joseph C. Madenspacher, Dist. Atty., Hugh J. Burns, Jr., Special Prosecutor, Phila. Cty., Susan E. Moyer, Asst. Dist. Atty., Bruce A. Roth, Asst. Dist. Atty., Office of the Dist. Atty., for Commonwealth.

Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN and SAYLOR, JJ.


OPINION

CASTILLE, Justice.

This Court granted allocatur in this matter to determine whether certain 1995 amendments to the Juvenile Act, 42 Pa. C.S. § 6301 et seq., violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9, of the Pennsylvania Constitution. For the reasons that follow, we hold that the amendments are constitutional and, therefore, we affirm.

On April 23, 1996, appellant and two...

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