Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Spotz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 20, 1998No. 159 Capital Appeal DocketPublishedCited by 188 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIGRO, Justice.
Following a jury trial, Appellant Mark Spotz was found guilty of first degree murder for the killing of June Ohlinger. The jury returned a verdict of death, and on March 6, 1996, the trial court formally imposed the death sentence. Appellant filed post-sentence motions which the trial court denied. This direct appeal followed. 1 For the reasons presented herein, we affirm the judgment of sentence.
Petitioner initially contends that the verdict of first degree murder was not supported by the evidence and was against the weight of the evidence. As in all cases in which the…
2Cases cited47 opinions
- Braverman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Commonwealth v. ClairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Commonwealth v. ZettlemoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
- Commonwealth v. LarkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
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3Cited by188 opinions
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