Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Uderra
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 21, 2004No. 341 CAPPublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice SAYLOR.
Appellant, Jose Uderra, seeks relief from his conviction and sentence in this capital, post-conviction appeal.
In October of 1991, Appellant robbed, beat, shot, and killed Michael Sharpe in a Philadelphia street following a dispute concerning a sale of illicit drugs. In 1993, he was tried jointly with a coconspirator, Juan Perez, and convicted, inter alia, of first-degree murder. In the course of a penalty proceeding, the jury found one aggravating circumstance, that the killing was committed while in the perpetration of a felony, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(d)(6), and no…
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