Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 2012

Commonwealth v. Adams

Commonwealth v. Adams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided July 17, 2012
48 A.3d 1230; 616 Pa. 437; 2012 WL 2899076; 2012 Pa. LEXIS 1570 (Atlantic Reporter, Third Series)

Commonwealth v. Adams

Opinion of the Court

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 17th day of July 2012, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:

(1) Is the Fifth Amendment right against self[-]incrimination, and Article [I,] Section 9 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, implicated by testimony presented by the Commonwealth that the [sergeant] investigating a homicide stated that [petitioner] did not want to speak with the officer, followed by the [sergeant]’s testimony that he introduced himself as a police investigator, that he was investigating a homicide and [petitioner]^ name had come up?

(2) Is the Superior Court permitted, under prevailing law regarding the “harmless error” doctrine, to consider evidence that was contradict*1231ed by other evidence introduced by [petitioner]?

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