Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Halley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 29, 2005No. 26 EAP 2004PublishedCited by 314 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice SAYLOR.
We allowed appeal to consider whether, as a component of a claim of ineffective assistance of an attorney for failing to submit a court-ordered statement of matters complained of on appeal, a post-conviction petitioner must demonstrate actual prejudice as a prerequisite to reinstatement of his direct appeal rights.
In April of 1998, Appellant participated in a killing in the Upper Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Following a bench trial in which he and a co-defendant were convicted of first-degree murder, aggravated assault, possessing an instrument of crime, and…
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- Commonwealth v. LordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
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