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- Title: Commonwealth V. Boczkowski
- Author : In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Eastern District
- Release Date : January 23, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 90 KB
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On May 5, 1999, a jury sitting before the Honorable David S. Cercone of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County convicted appellant of first-degree murder for the strangulation death of his wife, Maryann Boczkowski. *fn1 At the penalty hearing, the jury found one aggravating circumstance - that appellant had been convicted of another murder committed before or at the time of the offense at issue *fn2 -- and one mitigating circumstance - evidence of mitigation concerning appellant's character. *fn3 The jury found that the aggravating circumstance outweighed the mitigating circumstance and therefore returned a sentence of death. *fn4 On May 6, 1999, the trial court formally imposed the death sentence. In this direct appeal from the sentence of death, appellant specifies twenty claims of error. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the verdict of guilt, but vacate the sentence of death and remand for imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment.