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COM. v. SPOTZ

No. 576 CAP.

18 A.3d 244 (2011)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. Mark Newton SPOTZ, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 29, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Brett Dunham , David Lee Zuckerman , Defender Association of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, for Mark Newton Spotz.

Jaime M. Keating , Cumberland County District Attorney's Office, Amy Zapp, Harrisburg, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, ORIE MELVIN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice McCAFFERY.

Mark Newton Spotz ("Appellant") has appealed from the denial of his petition for collateral relief filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act1 ("PCRA"), following his conviction for first-degree murder and the imposition of a sentence of death. We affirm.

While engaged in a three-day crime spree in early 1995, Appellant killed four people in four counties. He was tried

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