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COMMONWEALTH v. TURNER

389 Pa. 239 (1957)

Commonwealth v. Turner, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 6, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin P. Rome, with him Walter Stein, for appellant.

Thomas M. Reed, Assistant District Attorney, with him Victor H. Blanc, District Attorney, and James N. Lafferty, First Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO, JONES and COHEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, June 6, 1957:

The trials of the appellant for murder for the same felonious homicide have amounted to a near tragedy of errors and all because the prosecution was initially conceived and undertaken on confessions wrung from the appellant and his co-defendants by coercive third-degree police methods which served to render the confessions incompetent as evidence.

Five times, the appellant...

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