Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Fernandez
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 21, 1984No. 1860PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OLSZEWSKI, Judge:
Appellant was convicted by jury of two counts of second-degree murder, burglary, and criminal attempt-robbery on December 29, 1981. Following oral argument, post-verdict motions were denied. Appellant was sentenced to two concurrent terms of life imprisonment on the second-degree murder charges, ten to twenty years’ imprisonment on the burglary charge and five to ten years’ imprisonment on the criminal attempt-robbery charge. The burglary and criminal-attempt sentences were to run concurrently with each other but consecutively to the two life sentences.
On September 28, 1974,…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Williams v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by23 opinions
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