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    HOLMES v. STATE

    No. 83-1055.

    494 So.2d 230 (1986)

    Steven HOLMES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

    August 12, 1986.


    Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

    Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Elliot H. Scherker, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Calianne P. Lantz, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and JORGENSON, JJ.


    BASKIN, Judge.

    Defendant Steven Holmes appeals a conviction and sentence entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of second-degree murder. Holding that the trial court abused its discretion by denying Holmes's motion for reevaluation of his competence to stand trial, we reverse and remand.

    Holmes, a seventeen-year-old deaf-mute, was charged with second-degree murder, arising from an incident at Edison Middle School during which he stabbed and killed...

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      COM. v. HUTCHINSON | 521 Pa. 482 (1989) | 21pa4821965 | Leagle.com
       

      COM. v. HUTCHINSON


      521 Pa. 482 (1989)

      556 A.2d 370

      COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Leonard HUTCHINSON, Appellee.

      Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

      Decided March 15, 1989.


      Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

      Gaele McLaughlin Barthold, Deputy Dist. Atty., Ronald Eisenberg, Chief, Appeals Div., Laurie Magid, Philadelphia, for appellant.

      Jeremy Gelb, Philadelphia, for appellee.

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


      OPINION

      McDERMOTT, Justice.

      On November 26, 1976 at approximately 11:05 p.m., a Philadelphia Police Officer received a description over his van radio of a male who had just raped and robbed two women.1 While receiving this information the officer observed appellee, Leonard Hutchinson, who matched the description. Mr. Hutchinson was stopped by the officer, placed in the back of the officer's police van, and taken some five blocks...

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