OPINION OF THE COURT
HUTCHINSON, Justice:
This is the Commonwealth's appeal by allowance from an order of Superior Court vacating Philadelphia Common Pleas' judgment of sentence and granting a new trial after a jury found appellee guilty of rape, robbery and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. Superior Court acted because it felt "[t]he Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has strictly prohibited communication between the judge and jury other than in...
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