(DOWNLOAD) "Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. John Charles Lesko" by Supreme Court of Pennsylvania # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. John Charles Lesko
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 12, 1985
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
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John Charles Lesko, appellant, appealed to us a Westmoreland County Common Pleas order denying his petition for post-conviction relief from that courts death sentence without a hearing. After filing his appeal in this Court, he asked us to transfer the record to Superior Court, claiming that we lacked initial appellate jurisdiction over post-conviction appeals in capital cases. On the merits, asserting breach of a plea bargain, he contends Westmoreland County Common Pleas erred in holding that his right to withdraw his guilty plea to a related murder had been finally determined against him by us in Commonwealth v. Lesko, 502 Pa. 511, 467 A.2d 307 (1982), on direct appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County, the court with initial jurisdiction over that related murder. He also contends that he has been denied adequate appellate review on the proportionality of his sentence and that the trial judges
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