Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 4/24/2013

Commonwealth v. Jordan

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65 A.3d 318
619 Pa. 513
2013 WL 1749826
2013 Pa. LEXIS 790

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concluding the trial court properly exercised its discretion in allowing the prosecutor to show the surveillance video in slow motion
holding testimony of victim’s widow was erroneously admitted during guilt phase of capital trial, but that the error was harmless
holding premeditation to kill “can be formulated in a fraction of a second.”
establishing slow-motion or still-frame version of video so alters the evidence that it is subject to separate evidentiary ruling
stating specific intent to kill can be inferred from the use of a deadly weapon on a vital area of the body
“The law does not require a lengthy period of premeditation; indeed, the design to kill can be - 13 - J-A28039-20 formulated in a fraction of a second.”

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Judges: Baer, Castille, Eakin, McCaffery, Melvin, Saylor, Todd

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