Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Frey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 18, 1986No. 123 E.D. Appeal Docket 1985PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
On post-conviction review we are here faced with the question whether appellant, Robert Frey, convicted of first degree murder by a jury and sentenced to death, which sentence was affirmed by this Court on direct appeal, is entitled to a new trial on the basis of after-discovered evidence.
On November 8,1979, the body of Barbara Jean Frey, the estranged wife of appellant, was discovered in her automobile in a cornfield in Lancaster County. She had been beaten and shot in the chest, and had died from massive hemorrhaging. On December 6, 1979, appellant confessed to the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Commonwealth v. FreySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
- Commonwealth v. TervalonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
- Commonwealth v. Sitkin's Junk Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
- Commonwealth v. MostellerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
- Commonwealth v. TreftzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1976
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Roderick Herman Frey v. Thomas A. Fulcomer, Warden, State Correctional Institution at HuntingdonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1997
- Commonwealth v. FreySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
- Roderick Herman Frey v. Thomas A. Fulcomer, Warden, State Correctional Institution at HuntingdonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1992
- Commonwealth v. MasonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
- Commonwealth v. KohanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
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