Commonwealth v. Lowenberg

ORDER

The Court being equally divided, the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County is affirmed.

NIX, J., files an Opinion in Support of Affirmance in which FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ., join.

FLAHERTY, J., files an Opinion in Support of Affirmance in which NIX and KAUFFMAN, JJ., join.

ROBERTS, J., files an Opinion in Support of Reversal in which O’BRIEN, C. J., and LARSEN, J., join.

OPINION IN SUPPORT OF AFFIRMANCE

NIX, Justice.

Appellant had a counselled direct appeal to this Court in which the admissibility of his confession was carefully scrutinized and found to have been proper.…