Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Beasley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 18, 1996PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FLAHERTY, Justice.
Appellant, Leslie C.X. Beasley, was convicted of murder of the first degree and possession of an instrument of crime. The conviction stemmed from the shooting death of police officer Ernest Davis at a restaurant in Philadelphia. The officer had gone to the restaurant in response to a radio dispatch alerting him that a man with a gun was present *562there. When the officer arrived at the restaurant, appellant shot and killed him.
After a penalty phase hearing, the jury returned a sentence of death, finding no mitigating factors and two aggravating factors: the…
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