Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Breakiron
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 9, 1999PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NEWMAN, Justice.
In this capital case, Mark David Breakiron (“Breakiron”) appeals from an order denying post-conviction relief.
I. FACTS
On March 24, 1987, Breakiron stabbed Saundra Marie Martin (Ms. Martin) at Shenanigan’s Lounge, the bar at which she was working. He then took her purse and the bags that contained the bar’s cash receipts for the day. He threw Ms. Martin’s body in his pick up truck and hid it in the woods near his grandparents’ house, where the police discovered the body the next day. At the time the body was discovered, it was nude except for a sock on her foot. The…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Mills v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Maynard v. CartwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Commonwealth v. AlbrechtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
- Commonwealth v. TravagliaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
- Commonwealth v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BreakironSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2001
- Commonwealth v. TedfordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2008
- Commonwealth v. HughesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2004
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
- Breakiron v. HornCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2011
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