Commonwealth v. Starr

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

This is an automatic direct appeal to the Supreme Court from the judgment of sentence of death imposed upon appellant, 1 Gary Lee Starr, by the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division. For the reasons set forth below, we vacate the trial court’s judgment of sentence and remand the matter to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas for a new trial.

Before appellant’s trial in this matter, Dr. Robert Wettstein of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic conducted three psychiatric interviews with appellant and interviews with his…