Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. William SOLOMON, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1980-04-25
Citations: 488 Pa. 622
Docket Number: No. 87
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. William SOLOMON, Appellant.
Judges: Before EAGEN, C. J., and O’BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 488
Pages: 622–625

Head Matter:
413 A.2d 657
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. William SOLOMON, Appellant.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Submitted March 3, 1980.
Decided April 25, 1980.
Leonard I. Sharon, Pittsburgh, for appellant.
Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Deputy Dist. Atty., Kathryn L. Simpson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, for appellee.
Before EAGEN, C. J., and O’BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE EAGEN notes a dissent and would grant a new trial because of prosecutorial misconduct. MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS filed a dissenting opinion.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.
This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County denying appellant's petition for post-conviction relief. Appellant argues that his trial/direct appeal counsel was ineffective in several respects, namely:
1. For failure to object to, or motion for a mistrial because of, allegedly prejudicial remarks of the prosecutor during his closing arguments;
2. For failure to request an instruction to the jury on involuntary manslaughter; and
3. for failure to call certain witnesses in his behalf.
We have examined the record and conclude that these issues are without merit. Accordingly, judgments of sentence affirmed.
EAGEN, C. J., notes a dissent and would grant a new trial because of prosecutorial misconduct.
ROBERTS, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
. Appellant's judgments of sentence for murder of the third degree and carrying a firearm without a license were upheld by this Court on direct appeal. Commonwealth v. Solomon, 471 Pa. 417, 370 A.2d 372 (1977).