Legal Opinion
Nicholas Karabin, Jr. v. George Petsock and Leroy Zimmerman, Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 3, 1985No. 84-5444PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
Nicholas Karabin, Jr. was convicted by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, of first-degree murder and reckless endangerment of the murder victim’s wife stemming from a March 17, 1978 shooting. A sentence of life imprisonment was imposed for the murder and a consecutive sentence of one to two years was imposed for reckless endangerment.
New counsel was appointed for the direct appeal and fourteen assignments of error were advanced to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania which affirmed the conviction. Thereafter, Karabin…
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