Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 22, 1989No. 109 E.D. Appeal Docket 1984PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
In this appeal, the Court is required to review a sentence of death imposed on the appellant, Reginald S. Lewis, after a jury found him guilty of the first degree murder of Christopher Ellis in the Oxford Bar on November 21, 1982. 1 The appellant raises fourteen counts of error for considera tion. After a thorough review of the record in this case, it appears that none of the appellant’s claims are meritorious or would require this court to vacate the present sentence. Therefore, the judgment of sentence entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Adams v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Commonwealth v. ZettlemoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
- Commonwealth v. FreySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
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3Cited by33 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. BaumhammersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2008
- Commonwealth v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2004
- Commonwealth v. BaumhammersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
- Szuchon v. LehmanCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2001
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