Commonwealth v. Weinstein

OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

In May of 1968 appellant, Stephen Z. Weinstein, while represented by two attorneys, entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with the murder of John W. Green, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, recently arrived from his home in the midwest. Appellant was sentenced by a three judge court to life imprisonment for first degree murder.1 On direct appeal in 1971, appellant *110cited as error, at his hearing on the degree of guilt, the rejection by the court of psychiatric testimony as to appellant’s irresistible impulse. Appellant has…