Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Porter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 16, 1999PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
CAPPY, Justice.
This is an appeal from the dismissal of Ernest Porter’s (“Appellant”) petition filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA), 42 Pa.C.S. § 9541 et seq. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
Appellant was found guilty of first degree murder in the shooting death of Raymond Fiss. The jury found that there was one aggravating circumstance 1 and no mitigating circumstances, and therefore sentenced Appellant.to death. This court affirmed the judgment of sentence on direct appeal. Commonwealth v. Porter, 524 Pa. 162, 569 A.2d 942 (1990).
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