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COM. v. WEINSTEIN

499 Pa. 106 (1982)

451 A.2d 1344

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Stephen WEINSTEIN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malcolm W. Berkowitz, Philadelphia (court-appointed), for appellant.

Robert B. Lawler, Chief, Appeals Div., Mark Gurevitz, Philadelphia, for appellee.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and HUTCHINSON, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

In May of 1968 appellant, Stephen Z. Weinstein, while represented by two attorneys, entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with the murder of John W. Green, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, recently arrived from his home in the midwest. Appellant was sentenced by a three judge court to life imprisonment for first degree murder.1 On direct appeal in 1971, appellant...

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