Commonwealth v. Crawley

OPINION OF THE COURT

CAPPY, Justice.

Presently before this Court is a direct appeal from the Order of the Court of Common Pleas denying Appellant’s petition for post-conviction relief. 1 For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the Order of the Court of Common Pleas.

In 1985, a jury convicted Appellant, Dewitt Crawley, of three counts of first degree murder in the brutal homicides of his two teenaged nieces and his brother-in-law. Appellant received three sentences of death. On direct appeal, this Court upheld the convictions and the sentences of death. Commonwealth v. Crawley, 514 Pa. 539,…