Commonwealth v. Adams
This text of 48 A.3d 1230 (Commonwealth v. Adams) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
ORDER
AND NOW, this 17th day of July 2012, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Is the Fifth Amendment right against self[-]incrimination, and Article [I,] Section 9 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, implicated by testimony presented by the Commonwealth that the [sergeant] investigating a homicide stated that [petitioner] did not want to speak with the officer, followed by the [sergeant]’s testimony that he introduced himself as a police investigator, that he was investigating a homicide and [petitioner]^ name had come up?
(2) Is the Superior Court permitted, under prevailing law regarding the “harmless error” doctrine, to consider evidence that was contradict[1231]*1231ed by other evidence introduced by [petitioner]?
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48 A.3d 1230, 616 Pa. 437, 2012 WL 2899076, 2012 Pa. LEXIS 1570, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/commonwealth-v-adams-pa-2012.