Pettway v. Commonwealth
Annotate this CaseAppellant was convicted of murder and intimidating a participant in the legal process for shooting and killing Troya Sheckles. Appellant was sentenced to fifty-five years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed the murder conviction but reversed the conviction for intimidating a participant in the legal process, holding (1) the evidence of Sheckles’s intentional murder did not support conviction on the intimidation-of-a-witness charge; but (2) Defendant’s argument that delayed disclosures of discovery material by the Commonwealth constituted unconstitutional arbitrary state action warranting dismissal of the charges against him was without merit.
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