Court Opinion

ID: 9636948
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:50:37.436122+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:51.604266
License: Public Domain

*387Justice BAER,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I join the Majority opinion as to its resolution of the guilt phase issues.
I, however, join Mr. Justice Saylor’s dissenting opinion only as to his conclusion that, in the penalty phase of a capital case, the finding of the “in perpetration of a felony” aggravating circumstance, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(d)(6), should be limited to the six felonies enumerated in Section 2502(d) of the Crimes Code, 18 Pa.C.S. § 2502(d). Here, Appellant was never convicted of any of the felonies enumerated in Section 2502(d); therefore, I agree with Mr. Justice Saylor that Appellant’s (d)(6) aggravator should be stricken and that Appellant should receive a new penalty phase hearing consistent with this determination.