Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 24, 2000No. 236 Capital Appeal DktPublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
CASTILLE, Justice.
In this appeal from the denial of appellant’s petition filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9541, et seq. (“PCRA”), appellant alleges various claims of trial court error, prosecutorial misconduct and ineffectiveness of counsel. For the reasons set forth below, we find that appellant is not entitled to relief and we affirm the ruling of the PCRA court.
Preliminarily, it is noted that on March 19, 1996, appellant was granted a stay of execution and was appointed new counsel for the purpose of filing his first PCRA petition. On June…
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