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COM. v. HAGOOD

516 Pa. 340 (1987)

532 A.2d 424

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Robert Lee HAGOOD, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 15, 1987.

Reargument Denied January 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Lewis, Dist. Atty., Yvonne A. Okonieski, Deputy Dist. Atty., for appellant.

Francis M. Socha, Richard F. Moffett, Harrisburg, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

We granted the Commonwealth's petition for allowance of appeal to consider the propriety of Superior Court's order vacating the PCHA court's dismissal of appellee's third PCHA petition without a hearing, and remanding for an evidentiary hearing.

The lengthy procedural history of appellee's case is as follows. Appellee was convicted of murder of the first degree on April 4, 1973, in connection with the stabbing...

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