Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 7/27/1978

Commonwealth v. Daniels

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390 A.2d 172
480 Pa. 340
1978 Pa. LEXIS 792

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holding that where there is no showing that material witnesses were lost to the defense, appellant’s claim must fail because he has shown no actual prejudice resulting from the delay
approving of the admission of expert opinion testimony based on out-of-court sources of information and recognizing that “all expert opinion is based on ‘hearsay’ to some extent.”
endorsing excluding from evidence a statement by a witness which “amounts to no more than an expression of his general belief as to how the case should be decided.”
testimony that death was homicide did not remove from jury question of accused’s criminal responsibility
The contention that an expert should never be permitted to express an opinion on an \ultimate issue\ is similarly misconceived.
seven and one-half year delay not in itself prejudicial where the delay was not intentional in order to gain unfair advantage and no actual prejudice was demonstrated

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Judges: Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino, Jones

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