Commonwealth v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
WILKINSON, Justice.
This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County entered after an evidentiary hearing denying post-conviction relief. The court rejected appellant’s claims that his trial attorneys were constitutionally ineffective in various ways. With respect to one of these claims, that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to prejudicial comments made by the prosecutor in his closing argument, we agree with appellant that the lower court erroneously rejected this claim and so reverse.
On October 21, 1976 appellant was convicted…
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2Cases cited9 opinions
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. MaroneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
- Commonwealth v. BanksSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
- Commonwealth v. CapallaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
- Commonwealth v. ZaffinaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
- Commonwealth v. SanabriaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
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