Legal Opinion
Lesko v. Lehman
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 11, 1991No. 90-3295PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Appellant John Charles Lesko was convicted and sentenced to death by the West-moreland County Court of Common Pleas for the murder of Leonard Miller, an officer of the Apollo, Pennsylvania police department. This is the second appeal involving Lesko’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On July 27, 1989, we reversed the district court’s issuance of the writ, holding that Lesko was not deprived of a fair trial by the introduction at trial of evidence of his role in the prior murder of William Nicholls. We remanded for consideration…
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