Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Peterkin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 12, 1994PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FLAHERTY, Justice.
Appellant, Otis Peterkin, was convicted by a jury of two counts of murder of the first degree, robbery, and possession of an instrument of a crime for the shooting deaths of two persons committed in the course of a robbery of a service station, appellant’s former place of employment. A sentencing hearing followed in which a jury returned a sentence of death for both murder charges. Appellant was subsequently sentenced to death, ten to twenty years imprisonment for the robbery conviction, and two and one-half to five years imprisonment for the possession…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Commonwealth v. TurnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
- Pennsylvania v. FinleySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Commonwealth v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
- Mills v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
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3Cited by103 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TravagliaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
- Commonwealth v. PeterkinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
- Beard v. BanksSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Beard v. BanksSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
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