Commonwealth v. Chamberlain

OPINION

Justice BAER.

Appellant Terry Ray Chamberlain appeals from the sentence of death imposed on May 13,1994, after a jury convicted him of two counts of first-degree murder, burglary, and possessing an instrument of crime. On direct appeal to this Court, we held that the trial court abused its discretion in denying a pretrial motion for continuance to allow Appellant to obtain DNA testing of certain blood evidence. Commonwealth v. Chamberlain, 557 Pa. 34, 731 A.2d 593 (1999) (Chamberlain I). To remedy this abuse of discretion, we remanded the case to the trial court to afford Appellant the…