Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 7/27/1999

Commonwealth v. Douglas

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737 A.2d 1188
558 Pa. 412
1999 Pa. LEXIS 2140

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holding that defendant had a full and fair opportunity to cross-examine the now unavailable witness at the preliminary hearing when neither the court nor the Commonwealth precluded the cross-examination
reiterating that this Court will permit vigorous prosecutorial advocacy so long as \there is a reasonable basis in the record for the [prosecutor's] comments\
reiterating that this Court will permit vigorous prosecutorial advocacy so long as “there is a reasonable basis in the record for the [prosecutor’s] comments”
holding that statements made eleven minutes after a shooting were admissible
finding that the Commonwealth made a good faith effort to locate a witness where police searched for the witness at his apartment, his mother’s apartment, several bars he was known to frequent, and his girlfriend’s house
upholding the admission of the victim’s declaration to a police officer as an excited utterance because he identified the shooter while being transported to the hospital eleven minutes after the shooting

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Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Saylor

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