Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 30, 1982No. 81-2-292PublishedCited by 692 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LARSEN, Justice.
This appeal raises the issue of the constitutionality of the death penalty which sentence was imposed by a jury upon Keith Zettlemoyer, appellant, pursuant to the procedures set forth in section 9711 of the Sentencing Code, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9711.1 For the reasons stated herein, we affirm appellant’s conviction for murder of the first degree, find the sentencing procedures to be valid under both the federal and state constitutions, and uphold the sentence of death.
Appellant was arrested on October 13, 1980 and charged with criminal homicide for the shooting death of…
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