Legal Opinion
Breakiron v. Horn
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 18, 2011No. 08-9003PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
NYGAARD, Circuit Judge.
A Pennsylvania jury found Mark Break-iron guilty of first-degree murder and robbery for killing a bartender and stealing her purse and money bags from the bar. At the penalty phase, the jury found as an aggravating factor that he committed the murder “while in the perpetration of a felony” — i.e., the robbery. 42 Pa. Cons.Stat. § 9711(d)(6). The trial court sentenced him to death. On Breakiron’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the District Court invalidated the murder conviction (and thus the death sentence) because it found that the…
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