Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Belmonte

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 8, 1985No. 1414PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TAMILIA, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence entered on November 22, 1982. Appellant, Victor Belmonte, Jr., was convicted of four counts of third degree murder after á bizarre incident in which he ran amok and shot five of his neighbors from his father’s house in Coráopolis, Pennsylvania. Appellant raises several substantive and procedural issues, a number of which concern his defense of insanity. After conducting a thorough review of the record in which this Court has painstakingly considered all of appellant’s arguments, we affirm. While we basically agree with the…

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2Cases cited62 opinions

  1. In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  3. Doyle v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  4. Archibald Lyles v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
  5. Commonwealth v. YoungSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. TrillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  2. Commonwealth v. Vander WeeleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
  3. Commonwealth v. NeelySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  4. Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
  5. Commonwealth v. BelmonteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985

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