443 Pa. 253
Decided May 13, 1971
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1971-05-13
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Decided 1971-05-13
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Story (1978), Commonwealth v. Travaglia (1983)
122 state decisions
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¶1Dissenting Opinion by
¶2We dissent and would award a new trial. It is our view that the district attorney’s comments to the jury, concerning the defendant’s failure to deny responsibility for the killing involved and the testimony of the police witnesses concerning the polygraph test, were so prejudicial as to deny Camm a fair trial. In view of the above conclusions, we deem it unnecessary to reach the other asserted assignments of error.