Commonwealth v. Kretchmar
This text of 679 A.2d 774 (Commonwealth v. Kretchmar) 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 7th day of August, 1996, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, limited to the issues of: (1) whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to introduce at trial records from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which would show that Petr sold a .22 caliber rifle prior to the murder; (2) whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to obtain and introduce at trial newspaper articles published after the murder, which revealed that the victim had been shot in the head; (3) whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to present testimony of a representative of the National Football League to show that [775]*775the Commonwealth’s witness was not employed by the National Football League at the time of the killing; and (4) whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the substance of the above issues.
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679 A.2d 774, 545 Pa. 41, 1996 Pa. LEXIS 1583, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/commonwealth-v-kretchmar-pa-1996.