Legal Opinion
Kendrick v. DA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 20, 2007No. 15 EAP 2004PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice CASTILLE. *
This matter comes before this Court on a Petition for Certification of Question of Law from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. This Court granted the Petition, which raised a single question of Pennsylvania law: whether our decision in Commonwealth v. Besch, 544 Pa. 1, 674 A.2d 655 (1996) establishes a new rule of law that cannot be applied retroactively to cases on collateral review. For the reasons set forth below, we answer the question in the negative.
The salient facts are undisputed. On February 9, 1988, acting pursuant to a search and…
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