Legal Opinion
Everett v. Beard
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 2, 2002No. 00-1662PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit J.
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Gerald Everett, who drove the automobile carrying two men who robbed and then murdered the proprietor of a grocery store, was convicted of first-degree murder in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, following a charge that explicitly permitted the jury to *503impute to Everett the murderer’s intent to kill. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court thereafter specifically held such a charge to be reversible error, although its holding followed inexorably, as the court itself said, from previously enunciated state law. The Supreme Court of…
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