COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant
v.
Lawrence STATES, Appellee.
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Argued March 6, 2007.
Resubmitted April 2, 2007.
Decided December 27, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Francesco Lino Nepa, for the Com. of PA, appellant.
Thomas N. Farrell, Farrell & Kozlowski, Pittsburgh, for Lawrence States, appellee.
David Alan Wolf, Dusty Elias Kirk, Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P., Samuel P. Kamin, Pittsburgh, for Lawrence W. Dunn, et al., appellants.
Ronald Harry Pferdehirt, City of Pittsburgh Law Dept., for City of Pittsburgh, appellee.
Richard B. Tucker, Tucker Arensberg, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Borough of Sewickley, appellee.
John Anthony Mulroy, Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, Pittsburgh, for Allegheny County, appellee.
Barbara A. Rizzo, Peacock, Keller & Ecker, L.L.P., Washington, PA, for Keystone Oaks School Dist., appellee.
Edward R. Lawrence, Jr., Springer, Bush & Perry, P.C., Coraopolis, for Baldwin-Whitehall School Dist., appellee.
C. Donald Gates, Jr., Pittsburgh, for Ross Tp., appellee.
M. Janet Burkhardt; Ira Weiss, Robert Maxwell Junker, Law Offices of Ira Weiss, Pittsburgh, for Bradford Woods, Montour School, Franklin Park, Pgh. School, Carlynton School, appellees.
Robert L. McTiernan, Tucker Arensberg, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Swissvale and Bethel Park, appellees.
Alfred C. Maiello, Donald Allen Walsh, Jr., Maiello, Brungo & Maiello, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, for Bethel Park, North Allegheny, Penn Hills, Chartiers, Moon School Districts, appellees.
Thomas Paul Peterson, Tucker Arensberg, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Mt. Lebanon School Dist., appellee.
Blaine Allen Lucas, Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Frazer Tp. and Borough of Aspinwall, appellees.
Craig Cryan Stephens, Allegheny County Bd. of Assessment, Appeals and review, appellee.
W. Theodore Brooks, Tucker Arensberg, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Shaler, Brentwood and South Fayette School Districts, appellees.
William C. Andrews, Andrews & Price, Pittsburgh, for Northgate, Avonworth, Cornell, Elizabeth Forward, Duquesne City, Highlands, et al., appellees.
In this case, we consider principles of double jeopardy in the context of a simultaneous jury/bench trial for multiple criminal offenses. In a relatively unusual procedure, the jury was charged with rendering a verdict on some of the charges, while the trial judge had the task of deciding another. We must determine whether a mistrial on some charges due to a hung jury, coupled with an acquittal in the bench trial, implicates...
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