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COMMONWEALTH v. BUTLER

446 Pa. 374 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Butler, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin A. Katz, for appellant.

James Watt and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, March 20, 1972:

Appellant, Charles Butler, while represented by counsel, pleaded guilty to two charges of murder generally, and after a degree-of-guilt hearing was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment. No appeal from the judgments of sentence ensued, but nearly five years later appellant filed a Post Conviction Hearing Act petition...

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