Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Koehler
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 20, 2012PublishedCited by 462 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice BAER.
In this capital case, John Joseph Koeh-ler (“Appellant”) appeals from an order of the Bradford County Common Pleas Court, which dismissed his petition for collateral relief filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), 42 Pa. C.S. §§ 9541-9546.1 For the reasons set forth herein, we affirm the denial of relief.
The record establishes that in 1996, Appellant was convicted of the first degree murder of Regina Clark and her nine year-old son, Austin Hopper. The evidence presented at Appellant’s trial established the following, as recited in our opinion on direct…
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- Commonwealth v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
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