Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Rico
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 21, 1995PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROWLEY, President Judge.
Robert Hornickle was killed in January, 1983, after he tried to recover $14,000 that he had borrowed from a Mend and then given to Ronald DeCaprio and appellant Joseph Rico in an unsuccessful attempt to buy marijuana. In April, 1986, DeCaprio was convicted on federal racketeering charges, with one of the predicate offenses being the murder of Hornickle. In May, 1990, appellant was charged with the murder of Hornickle. On February 21, 1992, a jury convicted appellant of murder in the first degree.
In this timely appeal from the judgment of sentence of life imprisonment,…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SnyderSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
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