Commonwealth v. Fleming

¶ 1 This interlocutory appeal is from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County denying Appellant’s pretrial motion to compel discovery of the Commonwealth’s case prior to formal arraignment. For the following reasons, we quash.

¶ 2 The present case arises from the unsolved homicide of Janine K. Kirk, whose body was found along Beach # 3 of Presque Isle State Park on June 25, 1988. An autopsy performed on August 25, 1990, determined that Ms. Kirk died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head and hemorrhaging from stab wounds to the neck. An investigation culminated with the…