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· 1/27/1975

Commonwealth v. Twiggs

Citations

  • 331 A.2d 440
  • 460 Pa. 105
  • 1975 Pa. LEXIS 613

How courts have described this case

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  • where judgment of sentence was vacated pending an evidentiary hearing on appellant’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim
  • where judgment of sentence was vacated pending an evidentiary hearing on appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim
  • counsel may decide as a matter of trial strategy not to call a witness
  • where only issue is credibility, failure to call known witnesses may be ineffective assistance
  • failure to subpoena witness who had testified for defense in first trial
  • failure to subpoena witness who had testified for defense in first trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino

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