Legal Opinion
In Re Hickson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 25, 2003No. 23 EAP 2001 and 24 EAP 2001PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Chief Justice CAPPY.
At issue in these appeals is who has standing to seek judicial review of a district attorney’s disapproval of his private criminal complaint. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the orders of the Superior Court.
On September 26, 1997, state parole agents Isaac Hickson (“Hickson”) and Robert Martinez (“Martinez”) shot and killed Kenneth Griffin (“Griffin”) while attempting to arrest him. Griffin was wanted for absconding from a halfway house and was a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred earlier that month.
The Philadelphia District Attorney (“District…
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