Commonwealth v. Morley

SAYLOR, Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of sentence for first degree murder entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County following a degree of guilt hearing.

Appellant, Gaye Morley, entered a plea of guilty to a general charge of criminal homicide in connection with the shooting death of her boyfriend, Stephen Lauritano. At the degree of guilt hearing, Appellant asserted a *1359diminished capacity defense, arguing that she had been in a “depersonalized state” at the time of the killing and therefore had been unable to formulate a specific intent to MU. At the conclusion of the…