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COM. v. ZETTLEMOYER

500 Pa. 16 (1982)

454 A.2d 937

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Keith ZETTLEMOYER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 30, 1982.

Reargument Denied February 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Tarman, Chief Public Defender, for appellant.

William A. Behe, Deputy Dist. Atty., Richard Lewis, Dist. Atty., Leroy Zimmerman, Atty. Gen., Marion E. MacIntyre, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Judah Labovitz, A.C.L.U., amicus curiae.

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

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

This appeal raises the issue of the constitutionality of the death penalty which sentence was imposed by a jury upon Keith Zettlemoyer, appellant, pursuant to the procedures set forth in section 9711 of the Sentencing Code, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9711.1 For the reasons stated herein, we affirm appellant's conviction for murder of the first degree, find the sentencing procedures to be valid under both the...

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