Court Opinion

ID: 9706594
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:47:08.258592+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:23.814875
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PAPADAKOS, Justice,
concurring.
I join in the reasoning and mandate of the Majority but write separately to express my belief that appeals of Common Pleas decisions in petitions filed under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act in death penalty cases are within our exclusive jurisdiction as part of the automatic review of death sentences imposed upon us by the legislature in Section 9711(h) of the Sentencing Code, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(h).
McDERMOTT, J., joins in this concurring opinion.
*88ORDER
PER CURIAM:
AND NOW, this 12th day of November, 1985, in view of appellant’s right to file an application for reargument, Pa.R. A.P. 2541 et seq., execution of sentence is stayed pending the filing and consideration of the application for reargument.