Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Perez
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 16, 2014PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice EAKIN.
This is a direct appeal from two death sentences imposed by a jury upon Albert Perez following his convictions of first degree murder and abuse of corpse. We affirm.
On the morning of January 15, 2007, Liz Ruiz received an email which purportedly came from her sister, Duceliz Diaz-Santiago, with whom appellant had previously been romantically involved. The email stated Diaz-Santiago was “doing something today thast [sic] will affe4ct [sic] us all,” Trial Court Opinion, 1/31/11, at 5 (citation omitted), then claimed appellant’s ex-wife’s boyfriend had raped Diaz-Santiago…
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