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Petitions for Allowance of Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Aug 1, 1991
527 Pa. 643 (Pa. 1991)

Summary

holding no new trial was warranted based on prosecutorial misconduct in closing arguments, where prosecutor's comments did not rise to level of inventing facts not of record; claim of prosecutor's vilification of defense counsel also failed to garner relief where defendant did not explain precise manner in which contested comments created such bias and hostility in jurors' minds as to hinder objective view of evidence; prosecutor did not improperly attempt to arouse sympathy of jury by going outside record or inventing testimony on behalf of victim

Summary of this case from Commonwealth v. Solomon

Opinion

August 1991.


Summaries of

Petitions for Allowance of Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Aug 1, 1991
527 Pa. 643 (Pa. 1991)

holding no new trial was warranted based on prosecutorial misconduct in closing arguments, where prosecutor's comments did not rise to level of inventing facts not of record; claim of prosecutor's vilification of defense counsel also failed to garner relief where defendant did not explain precise manner in which contested comments created such bias and hostility in jurors' minds as to hinder objective view of evidence; prosecutor did not improperly attempt to arouse sympathy of jury by going outside record or inventing testimony on behalf of victim

Summary of this case from Commonwealth v. Solomon
Case details for

Petitions for Allowance of Appeal

Case Details

Full title:PETITIONS FOR ALLOWANCE OF APPEAL

Court:Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Aug 1, 1991

Citations

527 Pa. 643 (Pa. 1991)
490 A.2d 755

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