Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Tilley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 26, 2001No. 9 E.D. Appeal Docket 2000PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIGRO, Justice.
At issue in this appeal is whether the PCRA 1 court erred in ordering the Commonwealth to produce all data in its custody, including the prosecuting attorney’s notes, related to the racial composition of the jury in Appellee William Tilley’s murder trial. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.
Appellee was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1987. 2 In 1996, Appellee filed a pro se PCRA petition, which was amended by court-appointed counsel. One of the claims Appellee raised in his amended PCRA petition was that the Commonwealth improperly struck…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Powers v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Commonwealth v. AlbrechtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
- Commonwealth v. CabezaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
- Commonwealth v. RollinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
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3Cited by110 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WashingtonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2007
- Commonwealth v. SpotzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2006
- Commonwealth v. MannSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
- Commonwealth v. FreemanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
- Commonwealth v. HackettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2008
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