Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Farley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 8, 1976No. 396PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROBERTS, Justice.
On May 17, 1974, after a jury trial, appellant Jeffrey L. Farley was convicted of murder of the first degree. The court imposed sentence of life imprisonment. Appellant appealed claiming that certain written and oral statements secured from him while in police custody should have been suppressed. 1 We agree, reverse the judgment of sentence and remand for a new trial. 2 3
Appellant’s conviction arose from a robbery and shooting of the proprietor of Timber’s Variety Store in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 1972. The proprietor died a week later as a…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Davis v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Commonwealth v. BosurgiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
- Commonwealth v. FutchSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
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3Cited by48 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LovetteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
- Commonwealth v. CarterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
- Commonwealth v. MartinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
- Commonwealth v. ShawSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
- Commonwealth v. SiloSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
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