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COM. v. MEALS

No. 58 MAP 2005.

912 A.2d 213 (2006)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Daniel MEALS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 27, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Reeder, Esq., David Everett Cook, Esq., H. Stanley Rebert, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Bruce Piersoll Blocher, Esq., James Brian Rader, Esq., York, for Daniel Meals.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and BAER, JJ.

OPINION

Justice CASTILLE.

The issue on appeal is the proper role of an appellate court in reviewing a sentencing court's classification of a criminal offender as a sexually violent predator ("SVP") under Megan's Law II.1 We find that the Superior Court erred in reweighing the SVP evidence presented to the trial court, rather than simply assessing the legal sufficiency of the proof respecting SVP status accepted by the...

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