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- Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Seifullah
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 18, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 78 KB
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JUSTICE CAPPY DECIDED: June 18, 1996 This is a direct appeal of the judgment of sentence of death imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County Pennsylvania. 1 Following a jury trial, Appellant, Seifullah Abdul-Salaam, was found guilty of murder of the first degree, robbery, and conspiracy. He was sentenced to death for the first degree murder conviction. 2 The jury found that the aggravating circumstances of: 1) the victim was a peace officer who was killed in the performance of his duties; 3 2) Appellant committed a killing while in the perpetration of a felony (robbery); 4 3) in the commission of the offense, Appellant knowingly created a grave risk of death to another person in addition to the victim of the offense; 5 and 4)Appellant has a significant history of felony convictions involving the use or threat of violence to the person, 6 outweighed the mitigating circumstance concerning the character and record of the Appellant and the circumstances of his offense. 7