Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent, v. Thomas W. HAWKINS, Jr., Petitioner
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1998-01-23
Citations: 550 Pa. 231
Docket Number: No. 0118 Capital Appeal Docket
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent, v. Thomas W. HAWKINS, Jr., Petitioner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 550
Pages: 231–232

Head Matter:
704 A.2d 632
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent, v. Thomas W. HAWKINS, Jr., Petitioner.
No. 0118 Capital Appeal Docket.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Jan. 23, 1998.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 23rd day of January, 1998, it is ordered that petitioner's emergency motion for a stay of execution pending the filing and resolution of a petition for a writ of certiorari is GRANTED. The execution shall be stayed pending action by the United States Supreme Court on the petition for certiorari from this Court's ruling in Commonwealth v. Hawkins, 549 Pa. 352, 701 A.2d 492 (1997). The stay shall expire if petitioner fails to timely file a petition for writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court.