Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Pal

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County

Decided January 9, 2015No. 13 CR 2269Published

1Opinion of the Court

NEALON, J.,

— Defendant has filed post-sentence motions seeking a judgment of acquittal, an arrest of judgment and a new trial following his convictions and sentencing for first-degree murder as an accomplice and criminal conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. *456Defendant seeks a judgment of acquittal due to the alleged insufficiency of the evidence, and alternatively requests that his first-degree murder verdict be molded to third-degree murder based upon his co-defendant’s conviction for third-degree murder as the principal. Defendant also seeks a new trial on the alleged grounds that (1)…

2Cases cited93 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Sheppard v. MaxwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Richardson v. MarshSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  4. Nebraska Press Assn. v. StuartSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  5. Estes v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965

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