Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Spotz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 26, 2012PublishedCited by 154 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice McCAFFERY.
Mark Newton Spotz (“Appellant”) has appealed from the denial of his petition for collateral relief filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”),1 following his conviction in York County for first-degree murder and the imposition of a sentence of death. Concluding that there is no merit to any of the numerous issues that Appellant has raised on appeal, we affirm the order of the PCRA court.
To begin, we set forth the relevant facts of the case, summarized primarily from this Court’s opinion on direct appeal. See Commonwealth v. Spotz, 562 Pa. 498, 756 A.2d…
2Cases cited67 opinions
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- Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by154 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SpotzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
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