Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Jack TURNER, Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1997-10-30
Citations: 549 Pa. 569
Docket Number: Appeal No. 169 E.D. Alloc. Docket 1997
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Jack TURNER, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 549
Pages: 569–570

Head Matter:
701 A.2d 1355
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Jack TURNER, Appellee.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Oct. 30, 1997.
Catherine Marshall, Jonathan W. Hugg, Philadelphia, for petitioner.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW this 30th day of October, 1997, the Commonwealth's Petition for Allowance of Appeal is granted. The order of the Superior Court dated January 22, 1997, is vacated in part to the extent it ordered a new trial based on a finding of ineffectiveness of counsel, a matter outside the scope of this court's order dated August 16, 1996. The August 16, 1996 order remanded the case for a determination on the merits of only those issues (suppression and weight of the evidence) which had been previously dismissed on procedural rather than substantive grounds.
This matter is remanded to the Superior Court to address the merits of Appellee's claim that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence.