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COM. v. YOUNG

536 Pa. 57 (1993)

637 A.2d 1313

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Joseph Louis YOUNG a/k/a Yusuf Ali, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 5, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen G. Heckman, Norristown, for appellant.

Hugh J. Burns, Philadelphia Dist. Atty., amicus curiae.

Mary MacNeil Killinger, Asst. Dist. Atty., Patricia E. Coonahan, Robert A. Graci, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS, CAPPY and MONTEMURO, JJ.

OPINION

MONTEMURO, Justice.

This is a direct appeal after remand from the judgment of sentence of death imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County following a resentencing hearing.

On July 10, 1987 a jury convicted Joseph Louis Young of two counts of murder in the first degree for the stabbing deaths of Dr. Ismail al Faruqui and his wife, Lois al Faruqui, in their Wyncote home.1 A separate sentencing...

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