Case ID: a2d_741/html/0198-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent, v. John Edward HILL, Petitioner.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    Dec. 15, 1999.
    James J. Karl, Chief Public Defender, for petitioner.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM:

AND NOW, this 15th day of December, 1999, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby GRANTED, limited to the following issue:

Whether an indigent defendant adjudicated as a “high-risk dangerous offender” pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 9714 possesses a constitutional right to state-funded psychiatric assistance in presenting a defense against statutory enhanced mandatory punishments?