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COM. v. JOHNSON

516 Pa. 407 (1987)

532 A.2d 796

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Vincent JOHNSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gaele McLaughlin Barthold, Deputy Dist. Atty., Ronald Eisenberg, Chief, Appeals Div., Philadelphia, for appellant.

Daniel M. Preminger, Philadelphia, for appellee.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

PAPADAKOS, Justice.

We are asked by the Commonwealth to review the issues of whether the seven year lapse before pursuing PCHA1 relief constituted a waiver under the Act, and whether trial counsel was ineffective for not objecting to a confession on the allegation that it was induced because of the delay between arrest and preliminary arraignment and for not objecting to the closing statement of the prosecution...

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