Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 7/10/1989

Commonwealth v. Haag

Citations

562 A.2d 289
522 Pa. 388
1989 Pa. LEXIS 323

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approving trial court’s ruling that jury would not be apprised of acquittal of one code-fendant and life sentence of another
in relation to aggravating circumstances, we have allowed convictions arising from crimes committed after the subject offense
acquittal of one cohort and another cohort's life sentence were not admissible evidence in mitigation in capital case
\the disposition of the cases against [appellant's cohorts] has no bearing upon appellant's sentence.\
“where the Commonwealth did not deliberately elicit the reference to a prior unrelated crime, did not exploit the reference, and introduced no evidence of the prior unrelated crime, a prompt curative instruction is sufficient to negate any prejudice which may have resulted.”

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Judges: Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott

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