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COM. v. FUTCH

492 Pa. 359 (1981)

424 A.2d 1231

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Clifford FUTCH.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided January 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Deputy Dist. Atty., Kemal Alexander Mericli, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellant.

Leonard Sharon, Claudia C. Sharon, Paul Gettleman, Eleanore Gettleman, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County holding the statute authorizing peremptory challenges, Act of October 7, 1976, P.L. 1089, § 1, formerly 19 P.S. § 811a, unconstitutional as applied in the selection of jurors for appellee's trial.1 The court entered its order after an evidentiary hearing on...

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