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COM v. D'AMATO

514 Pa. 471 (1987)

526 A.2d 300

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Joseph Carmen D'AMATO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 22, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Preminger, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Gaele McLaughlin Barthold, Deputy Dist. Atty., Ronald Eisenberg, Chief, Appeals Division, Alan Sacks, Marion E. MacIntyre, Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, for appellee.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

LARSEN, Justice.

Joseph Carmen D'Amato, appellant, was convicted by a jury of murder of the first degree and sentenced by that jury to death. He now brings a direct appeal to this Court1 challenging the determination by the suppression court that his confession was admissible at trial, asserting that he was denied a fair trial due to certain allegedly improper remarks by the prosecutor, and claiming that...

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