Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ford
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 22, 1980No. 420, 441PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
O’BRIEN, Justice.
Appellant, Wayne Ford, a/k/a Levan Spann, pleaded guilty to murder of the third degree in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County on December 4, 1975. On March 16, 1976, he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than eight nor more than twenty years.
A direct appeal was taken to this Court in which appellant claimed, inter alia, he had been denied effective assistance of counsel. We remanded to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on the claims of ineffectiveness. Commonwealth v. Ford, 484 Pa. 163, 398 A.2d 995 (1979). The…
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