Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Marcus HAND, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1980-05-30
Citations: 489 Pa. 595
Docket Number: No. 247
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Marcus HAND, Appellant.
Judges: Before EAGEN, C. J., and O’BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 489
Pages: 595–597

Head Matter:
414 A.2d 1051
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Marcus HAND, Appellant.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Submitted April 18, 1980.
Decided May 30, 1980.
Robert B. Mozenter, Philadelphia, for appellant.
Robert B. Lawler, Chief, Appeals Division, Asst. Dist. Atty., Gaele McLaughlin Barthold, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.
Before EAGEN, C. J., and O’BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.
Appellant was arrested for robbery and the shooting death of an off-duty Philadelphia police officer. He was tried by a jury and found guilty of three counts of robbery and murder of the second degree. After denial of post-verdict motions, appellant was sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment and ten to twenty years incarceration, and this appeal followed.
Appellant raises five issues: 1) the trial court erred in not dismissing the charges pursuant to Rule 1100 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure; 2) the trial court erred in admitting testimony concerning prior crimes into evidence; 3) the evidence is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant participated in the robbery-murder; 4) appellant's first trial counsel was ineffective in failing to move to suppress evidence of appellant's participation in similar crimes; and 5) the trial court erred in admitting evidence obtained pursuant to a search warrant for which there was insufficient probable cause. We have reviewed the record and find that it fails to support these contentions, and that they are frivolous.
The judgments of sentence are affirmed.