(DOWNLOAD) "Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Edward Stanslaus Zakrzewski" by Supreme Court of Pennsylvania # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Edward Stanslaus Zakrzewski
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 18, 1975
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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On July 16, 1972, appellant, Edward Zakrzewski, was charged with the murder of one John Higgins. Upon the return of an indictment for the crime, appellant entered a plea of not guilty and moved for the suppression of a confession which he had given the police subsequent to his arrest. Concluding that the confession had been voluntarily made, the suppression court denied the motion. Appellant then, upon the advice of counsel, withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty to murder generally. This plea was conditioned upon his right to withdraw it and proceed to trial should the court determine that the killing rose to murder in the first degree. A degree of guilt hearing was then conducted, at the conclusion of which the court found appellant guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced him to not less than ten and not more than twenty years imprisonment. This appeal followed.