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· 3/18/1991

Commonwealth v. Cam Ly

Citations

  • 599 A.2d 613
  • 528 Pa. 523
  • 1991 Pa. LEXIS 67

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that robbery is a felony in New York and three prior convictions for robbery satisfies the significant history of violent felonies aggravator
  • counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for selecting one reasonable course from others that may be available
  • admission of evidence must have resulted in an “incurable” prejudice
  • in-struction that malice and intent to kill may be inferred from the use of a deadly weapon on a vital part of the body was proper and did not shift the burden of proof to the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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