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- Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Gershom Sessoms
- Author : at Jackson Supreme Court of Tennessee
- Release Date : January 07, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 89 KB
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This appeal presents a challenge to the validity of a sentence imposed according to the Sentencing Guidelines, 204 Pa.Code Ch. 303. The appellant Gershom Sessoms was found guilty of aggravated assault and possession of an instrument of crime. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years imprisonment on the assault charge and a consecutive term of 5 years probation on the weapons charge. Sessoms unsuccessfully argued to the courts below that the method by which the Sentencing Guidelines were established violated either or both of our Constitutions requirements of bicameral consideration and presentment for gubernatorial approval. We allowed this appeal to address these important questions on which Superior Court was unable to develop a consensus rationale. See Commonwealth v. Kuphal, 347 Pa. Super. 572, 500 A.2d 1205 (1985) (companion case).