Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Spotz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 29, 2011No. 576 CAPPublishedCited by 609 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice McCAFFERY.
Mark Newton Spotz (“Appellant”) has appealed from the denial of his petition for collateral relief filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act1 (“PCRA”), following his conviction for first-degree murder and the imposition of a sentence of death. We affirm.
While engaged in a three-day crime spree in early 1995, Appellant killed four people in four counties. He was tried separately for each homicide, and he was ultimately convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of his brother, Dustin Spotz, in Clearfield County, and of first-degree murder in the deaths of…
2Cases cited91 opinions
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- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Kyles v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by609 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SpotzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
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- Commonwealth v. ChmielSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
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