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| Pa. Supreme Court poised to take on sentencing case |
| By post-gazette.com - Paula Reed Ward |
| Published: 12/02/2013 |
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The Allegheny County district attorney's office will ask the state Supreme Court to determine what sentencing law should be followed for a defendant whose victim was injured in 1993 and died in 2007. The decision will mean the difference between a sentence of 20 to 40 years in prison and 10 to 20 years for Stevenson Rose, convicted of third-degree murder in the death of Mary Mitchell. Experts think the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will take the case, even though it accepts only about 5 percent of all the petitions for appeal it receives each year. "I absolutely expect the Supreme Court will take it," said Bruce Antkowiak, a law professor at Saint Vincent College and a former prosecutor. "There's essentially no controlling Pennsylvania precedent on this issue at all." Read More. |
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