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COMMONWEALTH v. BUTLER

442 Pa. 476 (1971)

Commonwealth v. Butler, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 22, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Barclay Surrick, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Vram Nedurian, Jr. and Ralph B. D'Iorio, Assistant District Attorneys, and Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, April 22, 1971:

In April, 1959, appellant was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. Since that time appellant has filed a number of habeas corpus petitions, all but one of which were filed without counsel. The only exception was a counselled habeas corpus petition filed in and heard by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1963.

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