Commonwealth v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion Announcing the Judgment of the Court
CASTILLE, Justice.
Appellant claims he is entitled to a new trial because the trial court: (1) failed to give an adequate cautionary instruction after the arresting officer testified that appellant was initially “hesitant as far as cooperating” prior to his statement to police, and (2) erred in denying appellant’s motion for mistrial after one of appellant’s co-conspirators non-responsively testified that he and appellant’s other co-conspirators all pleaded guilty to the same offenses for which appellant was being tried. For the following reasons, we…
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