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COMMONWEALTH v. MOORE

467 Pa. 497 (1976)

359 A.2d 386

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Thomas William MOORE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 6, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward G. Rendell, Philadelphia, for appellant.

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Dist. Atty., Steven H. Goldblatt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Div., Deborah E. Glass, Philadelphia, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., and EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Judgment of sentence affirmed.

MANDERINO, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which ROBERTS, J., joins.

MANDERINO, Justice (dissenting).

I cannot agree with the majority's determination that appellant's confession was "the product of an essentially free and unconstrained choice". Commonwealth v. Alston, 456 Pa. 128, 131, 317 A.2d 241, 243 (1974). This Court has previously held...

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