Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Moody
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 30, 1977No. 280PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EAGEN, Chief Justice.
In this appeal by the Commonwealth we are asked to determine the constitutionality of section 1311 of the Sentencing Code, 18 Pa. C.S.A. § 1311 (Supp. 1977-78), which establishes sentencing procedures and standards regulating jury determinations of whether or not the death penalty should be imposed as punishment for murder, and which a panel of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia held to be unconstitutional. We shall affirm.
I
Appellee Theodore Moody was convicted by a jury of murder of the first degree and criminal conspiracy in the death on December 29, 1974,…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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3Cited by107 opinions
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