Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Simons
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 11, 1987No. 13 Eastern District Appeal Docket 1986PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
PAPADAKOS, Justice.
In this appeal, we are called upon to determine whether the type of prosecutorial misconduct present in this case prohibits re-trial on double jeopardy grounds. We answer in the negative and affirm the decision of Superior Court, 342 Pa.Superior Ct. 281, 492 A.2d 1119, which remanded the case to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County for a new trial.
In July, 1975, Appellant, Lawrence Demetrius Simons, solicited Wayne Thorpe, Grant Ravenell and Angelo Casselle to rob Zollie Perry. While Appellant and Casselle waited in a car as lookouts, Thorpe…
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