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· 1/17/1989

Commonwealth v. Fried

Citations

  • 555 A.2d 119
  • 382 Pa. Super. 156
  • 1989 Pa. Super. LEXIS 41

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • suggesting that the purpose of the rule is to prevent the use of hasty and unguarded confessions to convict an individual when no crime has been committed
  • findings of nontestifying autopsy expert were admissible where testifying expert had relied on such findings, but the conclusions that flowed from the nontestifying expert’s findings were inadmissible insofar as the testifying expert disagreed with those conclusions

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Judges: Wieand, McEwen, Melinson

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