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545 Pa. 41

679 A.2d 774

Commonwealth v. Kretchmar

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided August 7, 1996

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1996-08-07

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2018

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Decided 1996-08-07

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¶1ORDER

PER CURIAM.

¶2AND 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 *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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