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632 Pa. 260

119 A.3d 306

Commonwealth v. Blystone

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 20, 2015

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 2015-07-20

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably K.C. and V.C. v. L.A. Appeal of: D.M and L.N. (2015), Shearer, D., Aplts. v. Hafer, S. (2018)

25 state decisions

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Decided 2015-07-20

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Chief Justice SAYLOR,

¶1dissenting.

¶2In this 31-year-old first-degree-murder case, I would undertake interlocutory appellate review of the substantive issue presented as a matter of this Court’s supervisory prerogative.

¶3The majority finds it appropriate to defer review until after the conclusion of the new penalty hearing, since “any error by the trial court in denying Appellant’s closure motion is fully remediable” at such time. Majority Opinion, at 313. At this juncture, however, it is my position that extraordinary measures are appropriate to minimize the possibility of further,' serial penalty hearings, perhaps entering into yet another decade.

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