Case ID: pa_559/html/0420-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

741 A.2d 198
    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?