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Commonwealth v. Hanible

Citations

  • 836 A.2d 36
  • 575 Pa. 255
  • 2003 Pa. LEXIS 2150

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  • holding that the out-of-court statement of the sole eyewitness who recanted at trial was sufficient to sustain Hanible’s conviction for first-degree murder
  • holding the jury was free to evaluate both the witness’s statement to police as well as his testimony at trial recanting that statement, and was free to believe all, part, or none of the evidence
  • rejecting sufficiency of the evidence challenge based on witness’s recantation of his prior statement to police
  • chest is vital part of body

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Saylor, Eakin, Lamb

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