Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Stark
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 20, 1987No. 3PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIEAND, Judge:
On September 13, 1985, after trial by jury, Newton Stark was found guilty of first degree murder. The conviction arose from an incident in which Stark had gone to the apartment of Larry Hoover, who was dating Stark’s estranged wife, and shot him in the chest with a shotgun. Stark filed timely post-trial motions in which he alleged numerous instances of trial error. Post-trial relief was denied on December 18, 1985, however, and Stark was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. In this direct appeal from the judgment of sentence, Stark contends that the evidence was…
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