Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1/22/1997

Commonwealth v. Gibson

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688 A.2d 1152
547 Pa. 71
1997 Pa. LEXIS 208

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validating prosecutor's mention of co-defendant's suicide, because evidence establishing that suicide had been presented
validating prosecutor’s mention of co-defendant’s suicide, because evidence establishing that suicide had been presented
holding a Kloiber instruction was unnecessary where the witness testified one of the photographs in a photographic array was “familiar” but chose to wait to make an in-person identification and immediately made a positive identification of the defendant at trial
affirming first-degree murder conviction based upon multiple shots fired into a crowd in a bar
validating prosecutor's mention of co-defendant's suicide, because evidence establishing that suicide had been presented

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Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Nix, Former

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