Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Colon
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 30, 2004PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
OLSZEWSKI, J.:
¶ 1 Franklin Colon, appellant, has brought this appeal from his judgment of sentence following a jury verdict of guilty on charges of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, and second-degree murder. The trial judge summarized the facts of this case as follows:
[Franklin Colon and Joey Gonzales], along with another confederate, Eliut Betancourt, were in search of money on the evening of October 29, 2001, and hatched a plan. Armed with a handgun that had been passed among the three of them, they set out to find an easy victim from whom they could steal. Driving…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Gray v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Commonwealth v. CrewsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
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