Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Rivera
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 24, 1976No. 350 and 351PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
POMEROY, Justice.
Miguel Rivera, the appellant was convicted by a jury of the offenses of murder of the first degree, rape and conspiracy. After the denial of his post-verdict motions, appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder charge and to a concurrent ten to twenty year imprisonment for rape. Sentence on the conspiracy conviction was suspended. This appeal followed.1
The Commonwealth’s evidence at trial was that Rivera was one of six men in the early morning hours of June 27, 1973 who participated in the rape of a young girl and the drowning of her…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Commonwealth v. ClairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Commonwealth v. AllenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
- Commonwealth v. YountSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Commonwealth v. FortuneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CarterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
- Commonwealth v. ScarboroughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
- Commonwealth v. BennettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Commonwealth v. DavisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
- Commonwealth v. WhitfieldSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
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