Commonwealth v. LaCava

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

This is an automatic direct appeal 1 from the judgments of sentence of death and concurrent and consecutive terms of imprisonment imposed upon appellant, Michael LaCava, by the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm appellant’s convictions but vacate the sentence of death and remand the matter back to the trial court for a new sentencing hearing on appellant’s murder conviction.

Following a ten day jury trial in 1991 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas before the Honorable…