Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Fletcher
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 21, 2006No. 438, 446 CAPPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice SAYLOR.
In this capital appeal, the Commonwealth challenges the award of a new trial by a post-conviction court deriving from the absence at trial of testimony from the assistant medical examiner who performed the autopsy of the murder victim, as well as a limited retraction by the pathologist who furnished trial testimony at the behest of the prosecution.
The background underlying Appellee’s 1993 conviction for first-degree murder and associated death sentence is set forth in Commonwealth v. Fletcher, 561 Pa. 266, 750 A.2d 261 (2000). Briefly, the killing occurred in March 1992,…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Burger v. KempSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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