Court Opinion

ID: 9711482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:32:55.01542+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:05.430029
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LARSEN, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent. Appellant committed two distinct and discrete crimes — aggravated robbery and murder — and he should be sentenced on both. In Commonwealth v. Sparrow, 471 Pa. 490, 370 A.2d 712 (1977), this Court held that aggravated robbery is not a “necessary ingredient” of murder, and that double jeopardy does not bar conviction and sentencing on both offenses. I believe Sparrow was correctly decided, and that the majority has erred in ignoring this clear precedent.
Consequently, I would affirm the judgment of sentence.
KAUFFMAN, J., joins in this dissenting opinion.