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COMMONWEALTH v. LITTLEJOHN

433 Pa. 336 (1969)

Commonwealth v. Littlejohn, Appellant. Commonwealth v. Archambault, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 24, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard M. Sagot, for Littlejohn, appellant.

Melvin Dildine, Assistant Defender, and Herman I. Pollock, Defender, for Archambault, appellant.

Benjamin H. Levintow, Roger F. Cox and James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorneys, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, January 24, 1969:

Because both of these cases squarely present the same issue for our determination, we have consolidated them for the purpose of opinion. In No. 445, appellant Leonard Archambault, who is serving a life sentence following a conviction for first degree murder, filed a petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act alleging that he did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to a direct appeal. A hearing was held...

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