Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Harris
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 20, 1997No. 99 Capital Appeal DocketPublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ZAPPALA, Justice.
This is a direct appeal pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 722(4) and 9711(h) from the imposition of a sentence of death' by the Philadelphia County Common Pleas Court. Appellant, John Harris, was convicted by a jury of first degree murder, robbery, criminal conspiracy, two counts of recklessly endangering another person and possessing an instrument of crime. 1 Following the penalty phase, the jury found that the aggravating circumstance that Appellant committed the killing while in perpetration of a felony, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(d)(6), outweighed the mitigating circumstance of no…
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