Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Bronshtein

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 25, 1997No. 88 Capital Appeal DocketPublishedCited by 103 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from a sentence of death imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County. 1 Following a jury trial, appellant was convicted of first degree murder, 2 robbery, 3 theft of movable property, 4 possession of an instrument of crime 5 and criminal conspiracy to commit murder. 6 The jury determined that the two aggravating circumstances it found outweighed the three mitigating circumstances established by the evidence and returned a sentence of death. 7 In addition to the court’s imposition of the jury’s verdict of death for the…

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2Cases cited40 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. McNeil v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  4. Commonwealth v. ZettlemoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  5. Commonwealth v. FreySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984

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3Cited by103 opinions

  1. Bronshtein v. HornCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2005
  2. Commonwealth v. CoxSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2009
  3. Commonwealth v. DiStefanoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2001
  4. Commonwealth v. SmallSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
  5. Commonwealth v. ChamberlainSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2011

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