Title: Commonwealth v. Estepp, V. (petitions for allowance of appeal)
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 384 EAL 2011
State: Pennsylvania
Issuer: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Date: December 28, 2011

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Respondent v. VERNON LEE ESTEPP, Petitioner : : : : : : : : : : : No. 384 EAL 2011 Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Superior Court ORDER PER CURIAM AND NOW, this 28th day of December 2011, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by Petitioner, are: 1. Should this case be remanded to the lower court for hearings regarding police misconduct? 2. Should the Petitioner be granted a new trial because of the admission of hearsay evidence from a non-testifying “informant” through the testimony of suspended officer Jeffrey Cujdik? The parties are directed to frame any arguments concerning after-discovered evidence under the four-pronged standard of Commonwealth v. Dennis, 715 A.2d 404, 415 (Pa. 1998).