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- Title: Commonwealth V. Passmore
- Author : In the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 30, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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¶ 1 Appellant, John Passmore, asks us to determine whether the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County had jurisdiction to convict him of second degree murder*fn2 following his guilty plea to murder generally. Specifically, Appellant claims there was insufficient evidence to establish that he kidnapped the victim in Pennsylvania before killing her in Maryland. Additionally, Appellant contends the court should not have waited until after the degree of guilt hearing to decide his motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. For the following reasons, we hold the Commonwealth presented sufficient evidence to establish Appellant kidnapped the victim in Pennsylvania, which properly established jurisdiction in this Commonwealth. We further hold the court properly waited to consider the facts presented during Appellant's degree of guilt hearing before making its determination regarding jurisdiction. Accordingly, we affirm Appellant's judgment of sentence.