Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 18, 1994PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
PAPADAKOS, Justice.
We are presently required to review the conviction of murder of the first degree and the death sentence of Antoine *67Clayton Williams (Appellant) pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(h)(1).1 Appellant was arrested and charged with murder of the first degree,2 for the death of twenty-three year old Jacqueline Lugo, who was beaten and stabbed to death in the front seat of a garbage truck in the City of Reading, Berks County on September 17, 1989.
Appellant was tried in the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, before a jury with the Honorable Calvin E. Smith,…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Commonwealth v. ZettlemoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
- Commonwealth v. SullivanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Commonwealth v. HardcastleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
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3Cited by113 opinions
- Commonwealth v. Abu-JamalSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
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- Commonwealth v. DiStefanoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2001
- Commonwealth v. LambertSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2002
- Commonwealth v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1996
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