Commonwealth v. Jones-Williams, A. - No. (Granted) (petitions for allowance of appeal)

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. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Petitioner v. AKIM SHARIF JONES-WILLIAMS, Respondent : No. 646 MAL 2020 : : : Petition for Allowance of Appeal : from the Order of the Superior Court : : : : : : ORDER PER CURIAM AND NOW, this 28th day of April, 2021, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by the Commonwealth, are: (1) Whether the Superior Court issued a decision in conflict with and failed to properly apply and follow the binding legal precedent of the United States Supreme Court and this Court, in holding that 75 Pa.C.S. § 3755 does not independently support implied consent on the part of driver suspected or arrested for DUI, rendering the implied-consent statute unconstitutional? (2) Whether the Superior Court issued a decision in conflict with and failed to properly apply and follow the binding legal precedent of the United States Supreme Court in Mitchell v. Wisconsin, ___ U.S. ___, 139 S.Ct. 2525 (2019), by finding that exigent circumstances did not exist to support a warrantless request to test Defendant’s blood?

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