Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 11/16/1990

Commonwealth v. Basemore

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582 A.2d 861
525 Pa. 512
1990 Pa. LEXIS 200

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concluding that evidence of a single prior conviction is admissible to rebut the no significant history mitigator
concluding that evidence of a single prior conviction is admissible to rebut the no significant history mitigator
holding that prosecutor’s remark that murder was a well thought out, carefully planned execution was perfectly innocuous
holding that the verdict must be set at death if the jury unanimously finds at least one specified aggravating circumstance and no mitigating circumstances
holding that the verdict must be set at death if the jury unanimously finds at least one specified aggravating circumstance and no mitigating circumstances
finding no standing to challenge vagueness of standard for weighing aggravating and mitigating circumstances because there were no mitigating circumstances to weigh

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Judges: Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Zappala, Papadakos, Cappy

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