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COM. v. ROMPILLA

No. 570 CAP.

983 A.2d 1207 (2009)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. Ronald ROMPILLA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 19, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tommaso V. Lonardo, Brian J. Collins, Worth Magee & Fisher, P.C., Allentown, for Ronald Rompilla, appellant.

James Bernard Martin, Bethany Spear Zampogna, Lehigh County District Attorney's Office, Amy Zapp, PA Office of Atty. Gen., Stephen M. Van Natten, for Com. of Pennsylvania, Appellee.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY and GREENSPAN, JJ.

OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of life imprisonment imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County ("trial court"), per then-President Judge Alan M. Black for, inter alia, first-degree murder. The sentence was imposed pursuant to a sentencing agreement that was reached after the U.S. Supreme Court granted appellant federal habeas corpus relief from his prior death sentence and ordered...

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