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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 5/16/1995

Commonwealth v. Buehl

Citations

  • 658 A.2d 771
  • 540 Pa. 493
  • 1995 Pa. LEXIS 323

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  • trial counsel may have wished to avoid emphasizing what might have gone relatively unnoticed by the jury, and thus possessed a reasonable basis for failing to request an instruction
  • counsel not ineffective for failing to object to references to defendant's making of death threats, attempt to hire out for murder, and possession of illegal weapons; prejudice was minimal
  • three members of a divided court interpreted the PCRA to require a defendant claiming ineffectiveness of counsel to meet a more demanding standard of prejudice than if he had raised this issue on direct appeal
  • three members of a divided court interpreted the PCRA to require a defendant claiming ineffectiveness of counsel to meet a more demanding standard of prejudice than if he had raised this issue on direct appeal
  • prosecution's failure to reveal potential bias of witnesses who had pending criminal charges did not entitle defendant to a new trial where there was sufficient other evidence to support the conviction, outside of those witnesses' testimony
  • PCRA court’s vacation of death sentence, based on its conclusion this Court erred when it failed to vacate sentence on direct appeal, was improper; there is no authority “which permits the Courts of Common Pleas of this Commonwealth to overrule the decisions of this Court”

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Judges: Nix, C.J., and Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille and Montemuro

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