Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Carbone

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided August 15, 1990No. 106 W.D. Appeal Docket 1988PublishedCited by 71 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

LARSEN, Justice.

On April 5, 1985, a jury found appellee, Patricia Ann Carbone, guilty of murder of the first degree for the killing of Jerome Lint. The Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County denied appellee’s post-verdict motions and sentenced her to a term of life imprisonment. On appeal by appellee, a divided en banc panel of the Superior Court reversed the judgment of sentence and remanded for a new trial on the charge of voluntary manslaughter. We granted the Commonwealth’s petition for allowance of appeal, and we now reverse.

On her appeal to Superior Court, appellee…

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2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. GockleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
  2. Commonwealth v. StoykoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  3. Commonwealth v. ClintonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
  4. Commonwealth v. GartnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  5. Commonwealth v. HinchcliffeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978

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3Cited by71 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. Cruz-CentenoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
  2. Commonwealth v. RiveraSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2009
  3. Commonwealth v. ChamberlainSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
  4. Commonwealth v. HouserSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
  5. Commonwealth v. YoungSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999

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