Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Griffin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 26, 1986No. 130 E.D. Appeal Docket 1985PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.
Rodney Lawrence Griffin, appellant, brings this appeal from his convictions for murder of the first degree and criminal conspiracy, his judgments of sentence of death (on the murder conviction) and five to ten years imprisonment (on the conspiracy conviction), and from the lower court’s denial of his supplemental post-verdict motions alleging ineffective assistance of counsel following a post-conviction evidentiary hearing on said motions.
During the early morning hours of December 17, 1983, Ellen Lewis was shot once in the head from very close range and…
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