Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Farquharson

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 29, 1976No. 1PublishedCited by 341 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

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NIX, Justice.

Appellant, Lois June Farquharson, a psychiatrist, was indicted in the shooting death of Leon Weingrad, D.O., and convicted of murder of the first degree after a trial by jury which lasted over three weeks. Post-trial motions were argued before a Court en banc and were denied. A sentence of life imprisonment was imposed under the murder indictment and a two year concurrent sentence of imprisonment was imposed under the conspiracy indictment.1 Appellant filed this appeal from the judgment of sentence entered under the murder indictment and was permitted, by this Court, to…

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2Cases cited37 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. GarvinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
  2. Commonwealth v. PaquetteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
  3. Commonwealth v. WoodhouseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1960
  4. Commonwealth v. GarrettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
  5. Commonwealth v. LowrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1953

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3Cited by341 opinions

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  4. Commonwealth v. Abu-JamalSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
  5. Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1994

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