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explaining that "law of the case doctrine" refers to family of rules which embody concept that court involved in later phases of litigated matter should not reopen questions decided by another judge of that same court or by higher court in earlier phases of matter
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No. 7 EAP 2006.
Argued: October 16, 2006.
Decided: October 16, 2007.
Appeal No. 7 EAP 2006 from the Order of the Superior Court dated August 3, 2005 (en banc) at No. 173 EDA 2000 reversing and remanding the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Criminal Division, dated November 10, 1999 at No. 8204-0277.
Michael Canick Schwartz, Esq., Philadelphia, for Thomas McCandless.
Hugh J. Burns, Jr., Esq., Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER and BALDWIN, JJ.
Prior Report: Pa.Super., 880 A.2d 1262.
ORDER
AND NOW, this 16th day of October, 2007, the appeal is hereby dismissed as having been improvidently granted.