Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Crawley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 31, 2007No. 447 CAPPublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Chief Justice CAPPY.
Appellant Dewitt Crawley requests that this court reconsider the standard for evaluating a determination as to mental retardation in death penalty cases that we announced in Commonwealth v. Miller, 585 Pa. 144, 888 A.2d 624 (2005). For the reasons stated herein, we reaffirm our decision in Miller. We also affirm the order of the PCRA court dismissing Crawley’s PCRA petition based on its conclusion that Crawley did not establish that he was mentally retarded by a preponderance of the evidence.
Crawley was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Atkins v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Buffalo Township v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2002
- Frank Thomas v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2002
- Commonwealth v. CrawleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
- Commonwealth v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
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3Cited by53 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MartinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2010
- Commonwealth v. KeatonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2012
- Commonwealth v. FisherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2013
- Commonwealth v. PadillaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2013
- Commonwealth v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2012
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