Legal Opinion
Tony Bennett v. Superintendent Graterford SCI
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 26, 2018No. 16-1908PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RESTREPO, Circuit Judge.
In 1990, nineteen year old Tony Bennett was sitting in the passenger seat of a getaway car when his conspirator entered a jewelry store to commit a robbery, shooting the clerk and killing her. Bennett was convicted of first degree murder. After a capital sentencing hearing, the jury returned a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Two state courts later vacated Bennett's first degree murder conviction, finding that the trial court erroneously instructed the jury that it could convict Bennett of first degree murder based on the shooter's…
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