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SARANCHAK v. BEARD

Civil No. 1:CV-05-0317.

538 F.Supp.2d 847 (2008)

Daniel SARANCHAK, Petitioner v. Jeffrey BEARD, Commissioner, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; David DiGuglielmo, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford; and Frank Tennis, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Rockview, Respondents.

United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.

January 4, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew C. Lawry, Shawn Nolan, Stuart B. Lev, Defender Association of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner.

Andrew J. Serina, Schuylkill County District Attorney's Office, Pottsville, PA, for Respondents.

MEMORANDUM

SYLVIA H. RAMBO, District Judge.

Before the court is a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, filed by petitioner Daniel Saranchak ("Saranchak"), a Pennsylvania inmate sentenced to death by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for murdering his grandmother and uncle. For the reasons that follow, the petition will be granted...

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