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OPINION OF THE COURT A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge. Appellant John Charles Lesko was convicted and sentenced to death by the West-moreland County Court of Common Pleas for the murder of Leonard Miller, an officer of the Apollo, Pennsylvania police department. This is the second appeal involving Lesko’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On July 27, 1989, we reversed the district court’s i

881 F.2d 44 28 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 77 John Charles LESKOv.David S. OWENS, Jr., Commissioner of the PennsylvaniaDepartment of Corrections; Charles Zimmerman,Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution atGraterford; Joseph P. Mazurkiewicz, Superintendent of theState Correctional Institution at Rockview; Morey M.Meyers, General Counsel of Pennsylvania; and LeroyZimmerman, Attorn

925 F.2d 1527 John Charles LESKO, Appellant,v.Joseph LEHMAN, Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Departmentof Corrections; Charles Zimmerman, Superintendent of theState Correctional Institution at Graterford; Joseph P.Mazurkiewicz, Superintendent of the State CorrectionalInstitution at Rockview; James J. Haggerty, General Counselof Pennsylvania; and Ernest D. Preate, Jr., AttorneyGeneral of the Commonwealth of Penns

QPINION OF THE COURT NYGAARD, Circuit Judge. Steven Heiser has waited more than eleven and one-half years for a Pennsylvania state court to hear his motion to withdraw a guilty plea. In addition, four years have passed without a hearing or ruling by Pennsylvania on Heiser’s Pennsylvania Post Conviction Hearing Act (“PCHA”) petition, which claims that his

OPINION OF THE COURT SCIRICA, Circuit Judge. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appeals the district court’s grant of a writ of habeas corpus. The question presented is whether the introduction of “other crimes” testimony deprived petitioner John Lesko of his Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair trial. We will reverse the judgment of the district court and remand for determination of other claims raised by pet

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JOHN W. DARRAH, District Judge. Plaintiff, Helferich Patent Licensing, LLC (“HPL”), filed suit against Defendants, The New York Times Company (“NYT”); G4 Media, LLC (“G4”); CBS Corporation (“CBS”); Bravo Media, LLC (“Bravo”); and J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc. (“J.C. Penney”), alleging claims of patent infringement. The parties filed cross-motions for summary judgmen

Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Senior Judge HAMILTON joined. OPINION WILKINSON, Chief Judge. Appellant Joseph Earl Bates was sentenced to death for the murder of Charles Edwin Jenkins. Bates does not contest the fact that he committed the murder. After exhausting s

Justice STEVENS, concurring and dissenting. I agree with the majority’s conclusion that the PCRA court properly denied relief on Appellant’s guilt phase claims. I respectfully dissent, however, from the majority’s conclusion that Appellant is entitled to a new penalty hearing based on a claim that her trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance in failing to investigate and pr

Justice BERCH, opinion of the Court. ¶ 1 We granted review to determine whether a group of legislators who voted against House Bill (“HB”) 2010 has standing to challenge whether it was passed in a constitutional manner. Because the group had enough votes to have blocked the bill if passage required a supermajority vote, the group has alleged an injury sufficient to confer standing. I. BACKGR

OPINION BY STEVENS, P.J.E.: This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of life imprisonment entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County by the Honorable Thomas J. Burke on August 13, 2015, following a bench trial and Appellant's conviction of first-degree murder. 1 Upon our review of the record, we affirm.

OPINION GEMMILL, Judge. ¶ 1 Petitioners are thirty-six members of the Arizona Legislature (“plaintiff legislators”), two constituents whose representatives voted against the bill at issue (“plaintiff constituents”), and a taxpayer seeking to bring suit pursuant to Arizona’s private attorney general statute (“taxpayer Jenney”) (collectively “Plaintiffs”).

J-A26021-21 2022 PA Super 63 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA Appellee v. FREDDIE SALVATOR GARCIA Appellant No. 2140 EDA 2020 Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered October 19, 2020 In the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County

789 F.Supp.2d 487 (2011) Daniel J. ANKER, Petitioner, v. Steven WESLEY, Warden, and Joseph R. Biden, III, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, Respondents. Civil Action No. 08-203-SLR. United States District Court, D. Delaware. May 26, 2011. *491 Joseph M. Bernstein, Esq., for petitioner. Elizabeth R. McFarlan, Deput

RULING ON PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS HAIGHT, Senior District Judge: In this habeas corpus action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Petitioner contends that he is being held in the custody of Respondent Connecticut Commissioner of Corrections in violation of the United States Constitution. Following an evidentiary hearing conducted by this Court, and written and oral submissions by counsel for the p

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ANDY BIGGS; ANDY TOBIN; NANCY BARTO; JUDY BURGES; CHESTER CRANDELL; GAIL GRIFFIN; AL MELVIN; KELLI WARD; STEVE YARBROUGH; KIMBERLY YEE; JOHN ALLEN; BRENDA BARTON; SONNY BORRELLI; PAUL BOYER; KAREN FANN; EDDIE FARNSWORTH; THOMAS FORESE; DAVID GOWAN; RICK GRAY; JOHN KAVANAGH; ADAM KWASMAN; DEBBIE LESKO; DAVID LIVINGSTON; PHIL LOVAS; J.D. MESNARD; DARIN MITCHELL; STEVE MONTENEGRO; JUSTIN OLSON;

OPINION Justice BAER. In 2008, a jury convicted Appellant Cle-tus C. Rivera of the first degree murder of Police Officer Scott Wertz. Appellant was thereafter sentenced to death, and this Court affirmed his judgment of sentence. Commonwealth v. Rivera, 603 Pa. 340, 983 A.2d 1211 (2009). Appellant subsequently filed a timely petition for collateral relief pursuant to the Post Conviction

584 F.2d 1235 17 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. 1252, 17 Empl. Prac.Dec. P 8576John R. NOVOTNY, Appellant,v.GREAT AMERICAN FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION, John A.Virostek, Joseph E. Bugel, John J. Dravecky, Daniel T.Kubasak, Edward J. Lesko, James E. Orris, Joseph A.Prokopovitsh, John G. Micenko and Frank J. Vanek. No. 77-1756. United States Court of Appeals,Third Circ

USCA4 Appeal: 21-7089 Doc: 43 Filed: 02/23/2022 Pg: 1 of 22 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 21-7089 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. MOHAMED ALI SAID, a/k/a Maxamad Cali Saciid,

[J-77-2015] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT SAYLOR, C.J., EAKIN, BAER, TODD, STEVENS, JJ. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 48 MAP 2015 BY KATHLEEN G. KANE, ATTORNEY : GENERAL; PENNSYLVANIA : Appeal from the Order of the DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE, BY : Commonwealth Court at No. 334 MD TERESA D. MILLER, IN

PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 21-7089 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. MOHAMED ALI SAID, a/k/a Maxamad Cali Saciid, Defendant - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk. Raymond A. Jackson, Distr