Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 5/22/1987

Commonwealth v. D'Amato

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526 A.2d 300
514 Pa. 471
1987 Pa. LEXIS 714

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holding that fifty hours of detention, without more, does not necessarily make a confession involuntary
finding that the prosecutor’s characterization of defendant as a “clever, calculating and cunning executioner” did not unavoidably prejudice defendant so that the jury could not weigh the evidence properly and render a true verdict
finding that prosecutor’s reference to the defendant as - 19 - J-S36033-20 a “clever, calculating and cunning executioner” was permissible response to the defense’s portrayal of defendant as being easily duped into making his confession
declining to grant relief where the prosecutor described the defendant as a “clever, calculating and cunning executioner”
applying Travaglia and concluding transportation time from state where defendant fled, to state where warrant was issued, was excludable from computation of six-hour period
observing “[wjhatever validity the Davenport rule retains, its ‘six-hour’ clock does not begin to run ... until the defendant has been returned to the judicial district wherein the arrest warrant was issued.”

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

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