Krivak that it is willing to do anything at all to secure a conviction, irrespective of whether Mr. Krivak is in fact innocent. Freed: Krivak released to await retrial in Putnam murder case. Krivak: Judge rejects bid to disqualify defense lawyers in murder case.
Guilty: Santoro pleads guilty to extortion plot in Putnam murder case. Krivak and Anthony DiPippo were arrested in and convicted the following year in the October rape and murder of Wright, whose remains were discovered in woods off Field Lane in Patterson in November Krivak, who spent 24 years in prison until his release on bail 14 months ago, never got a new trial until now. But DiPippo was acquitted at his third trial in when the defense was finally allowed to present evidence about Gombert.
The court then accepted the plea as tendered. The court again informed appellant of his right to a jury trial whereupon appellant signed the waiver form. The case then proceeded as a bench trial with stipulated facts.
Following the bench trial, appellant was found guilty of the above listed crimes. A separate penalty hearing was held after which the court found, as to each murder, two aggravating circumstances which it determined outweighed the four mitigating circumstances.
On July 31, , a formal sentencing hearing was held following which the court imposed two consecutive death sentences as well as a sentence of ten 10 to twenty 20 years on the robbery conviction. This automatic direct appeal followed. As in all cases in which the death penalty has been imposed, this Court is required to conduct an independent review of the sufficiency of the evidence even where, as here, the defendant has not specifically challenged the conviction on that ground.
Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer, Pa. In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, we must determine whether the evidence, and all reasonable inferences deducible therefrom, viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict-winner, are sufficient to establish all the elements of the offense s beyond a reasonable doubt.
Rhodes, Pa. As stipulated, the evidence establishes the following:. On that date, at approximately a. Jenkins was of the opinion that the car depicted in the photograph was identical to the one he saw in the parking lot on the day of the murders. At approximately a. As he was about to enter the building, he noticed a man standing inside the restaurant waving a gun in the direction of the manager, Jean Reider, who was carrying cash drawers from the safe and placing them on the counter.
Another employee, Brian Titus, also arrived at approximately a. As he entered a door to the restaurant, he noticed a person lying on the floor in front of a desk that was located next to the safe who was signaling for Titus to leave the restaurant. Titus also observed a person, approximately six feet tall, standing inside the restaurant with arms extended as though holding something in his hand.
Both Titus and Burnette then went to a nearby store to call the police. When the police arrived at the scene, they discovered the bodies of Charles Hegarty and Jean Reider. The body of Charles Hegarty was found in the exact location where Brian Titus had seen someone lying earlier.
The blood stains on the wall indicated that she had been shot while sitting with her legs crossed and curled up. The safe was open and the cash drawers had been taken out and left on the floor. No money was left in the cash drawers except for some rolls of coins. When Quigley arrived at the Abbey Green Motel at approximately a.
The murder of Betty Jeanne Solomon attracted wide media attention and was dubbed the Fatal Attraction killing after the movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
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