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Commonwealth v. Hughes

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 25, 1994No. 26 Eastern District Appeal Docket 1991PublishedCited by 61 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

CAPPY, Justice.

This is an automatic direct appeal 1 from two sentences of death imposed upon appellant by the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County following his conviction of two counts of first degree murder and one count each of robbery, possession of instruments of crime, and violation of the Uniform Firearms Act. The charges arose as a result of the shooting deaths of two employees of a McDonald’s restaurant located in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of January 8, 1989. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the convictions and the judgment of sentence.

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2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Edwards v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  2. Rhode Island v. InnisSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  3. North Carolina v. ButlerSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  4. Commonwealth v. ZettlemoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  5. Commonwealth v. StorySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978

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3Cited by61 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. BomarSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
  2. Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
  3. Commonwealth v. Woodard, A., Aplt.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2015
  4. Commonwealth v. BaumhammersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
  5. Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999

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