Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Cristina
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 5, 1978No. 128 and 142PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EAGEN, Chief Justice.
On June 29,1976, Jeffrey Cristina was convicted by a jury in Allegheny County of robbery and of murder of the second degree. On the murder conviction, a sentence of life imprisonment was imposed. Sentence was suspended on the robbery conviction. An appeal from the judgment of sentence imposed on the murder conviction was filed in this Court. An appeal from the order imposed on the robbery conviction was filed in the Superior Court and later certified here. The charges against Cristina arose out of the death of Frank Slazinski, an eighty-two-year-old retired steel…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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3Cited by52 opinions
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