Commonwealth v. Thompson

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

Thompson was tried before a jury in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia — Criminal Division, and was convicted of murder of the first degree, robbery, criminal conspiracy, and possession of an instrument of crime. The convictions arose from Thompson’s shooting of Bill Moye outside a crack house in Philadelphia because Moye owed him money. At the penalty phase of the trial, the jury unanimously determined that the Commonwealth established aggravating circumstance (d)(6) (a killing committed while in the perpetration of a felony), 1 and some of the…