COM. v. GARCIA

No. 52 MAP 2011

43 A.3d 470 (2012)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant v. Jeanette GARCIA, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 25, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah Ann Lavelle , Pike County District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia, Raymond Jay Tonkin , for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Thomas Earl Mincer , Law Office of Thomas E. Mincer, LLC, Milford, for Jeanette Garcia.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, ORIE MELVIN, JJ.


OPINION

Justice BAER.

In this case, we are presented with an aberrant procedural history involving an attempted appeal to the Superior Court from an order entered by a magisterial district judge following a defendant's entry of a guilty plea. Given that the Rules of Criminal Procedure do not provide for an appeal from a magisterial district court to the Superior Court, we conclude that the Superior Court did not have jurisdiction over this case because...

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