Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Padgett
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 9, 1968No. Appeal, 379PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Roberts,
All of the implications of Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S. Ct. 1758 (1964) have yet to be determined by the courts. We are today faced with a problem concerning the relationship Escobedo bears to the recently announced United States Supreme Court decision governing constitutional harmless error, Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 87 S. Ct. 824 (1967), followed by this Court in Commonwealth v. Pearson, 427 Pa. 45, 233 A. 2d 552 (1967).
Appellant, Leroy Padgett, after a June 1965 jury trial, was convicted of second degree murder. Post-trial motions were…
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3Cited by111 opinions
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