Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Hall

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 17, 1997No. 79 Capital Appeal DocketPublishedCited by 218 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

CASTILLE, Justice.

Following a jury trial, appellant was found guilty of first degree murder, 1 carrying a firearm without a license, 2 robbery, 3 conspiracy to commit robbery, 4 and recklessly endangering another person 5 in connection with the December 18, 1993 death of Donald Johnson. The jury acquitted appellant of conspiracy to commit murder. Following the penalty hearing, the jury found that two aggravating circumstance 6 outweighed the one mitigating circumstance, 7 and set the penalty at death. On November 7, 1994, the trial court imposed the jury’s sentence of death. 8 This…

2Cases cited40 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Malloy v. HoganSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Harmelin v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  4. Commonwealth v. ZettlemoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  5. Commonwealth v. TravagliaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1995

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3Cited by218 opinions

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