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COM. v. PADILLA

Nos. 567 and 568 CAP

80 A.3d 1238 (2013)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. Miguel A. PADILLA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Resubmitted September 20, 2013.

Decided October 31, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jules Epstein, Esq. , Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, Philadelphia, J. Alexander Hershey, Esq. , Thorp Reed & Armstrong, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, for Miguel A. Padilla.

Marc Alan Bookman, Esq. , Robert Brett Dunham , Defender Association of Philadelphia, for Government of The United Mexican States.

Jackie Atherton Bernard, Esq. , Richard A. Consiglio, Esq. , Blair County District Attorney's Office, Amy Zapp, Esq. , PA Office of Attorney, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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

OPINION

Justice McCAFFERY.

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of sentence of death on three counts of first-degree murder. We affirm the judgment of sentence.

In the very early morning hours of August 28, 2005, Appellant fatally shot three men outside of the United Veterans Association ("UVA"), a private social club in Altoona, Blair County, after he and two friends, Travis Shumaker and Shirley Shumaker, were denied admission. The victims...

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