Lewis v. Commonwealth
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of intentional murder, two counts of assault in the first degree, and one count of wanton endangerment in the first degree. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it excluded Defendant’s plea agreement from evidence in the guilt phase; (2) the inclusion of a “complicity to the act” instruction did not deprive Defendant of a unanimous verdict; (3) the trial court did not err in the intentional murder instructions by failing to include a method by which the victims were killed; (4) the trial court did not err by admitting one victim’s dying declaration; (5) the Commonwealth’s statements during closing argument in the guilt phase did not amount to prosecutorial misconduct; and (6) the trial court did not err by excluding Defendant’s accomplice’s plea agreement during the penalty phase.
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