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COM. v. TANN

500 Pa. 593 (1983)

459 A.2d 322

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Paul TANN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 27, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia C. Sharon, Sharon & Sharon, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Robert L. Eberhardt, Deputy Dist. Atty., Kemal Alexander Mericli, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before ROBERTS, C.J., and NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON and ZAPPALA, JJ.

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

In the early morning hours of January 28, 1979, an angry racial confrontation developed between two groups of young males in the Beltzhoover section of the City of Pittsburgh. The charged incident quickly deteriorated into deadly violence as gunfire cracked in the cold snowy night1 and James Fink, one of the white youths involved, was shot and killed.2 The Appellant, Paul...

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