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· 1/11/1989

Commonwealth v. Doa

Citations

  • 553 A.2d 416
  • 381 Pa. Super. 181
  • 1989 Pa. Super. LEXIS 18

How courts have described this case

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  • discussing evidentiary law pre-codification of the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence and finding that a witness need not be able to identify the defendant at trial for prior identification to be substantively admitted via the testimony of a police officer
  • trial court did not err in allowing assistant district attorney who handled prosecution of defendant at preliminary hearing to later testify at defendant’s trial when testifying assistant district attorney was not functioning in the dual capacity of witness and advocate

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Judges: Wieand, McEwen, Melinson

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