Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. DeHart
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 3, 1986PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
This is an automatic direct appeal 1 from a death sentence imposed upon appellant by the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County following his conviction of first degree murder. Appellant also appeals his related convictions for robbery, burglary and escape. For the reasons that follow, we affirm those convictions and the judgments of sentence thereon.
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On April 3, 1983, appellant was arrested in Pottstown, Pennsylvania on a charge that he had escaped from prison. On April 14, 1983, after a preliminary hearing before a district justice, appellant was held over for…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by141 opinions
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