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Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Ralph Trent Stokes
Author : Western Section, at Jackson Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Release Date : January 06, 1992
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 79 KB

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Three consecutive sentences of death were imposed upon Ralph Trent Stokes on June 9, 1987. Further cumulative consecutive sentences of ten to twenty years for robbery, two and one-half to five years for possessing instruments of crime, and five to ten years for criminal conspiracy were also imposed. As this case culminated in a penalty of death it is subject to direct automatic review by this Court 42 Pa.C.S. ? 9711(h)(1). In accordance with our statutory duty we will begin with a review of the sufficiency of the evidence. Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer, 500 Pa. 16, 454 A.2d 937 (1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 970, rehg denied, 463 U.S. 1236 (1983)