Pennsylvania v. Mouzon (majority)
Annotate this CaseThis appeal by the Commonwealth, the prevailing party at trial which was aggrieved by the Superior Court's grant of a new trial, centered on principles of self-defense for purposes of assessing whether the trial court abused its discretion in excluding evidence of the murder victim's nine-year-old conviction for robbery. The Commonwealth contended, among other points, that the Superior Court's assessment of the evidentiary ruling misapprehended the law governing self-defense. Upon review of the trial court record and the briefs submitted on appeal, the Supreme Court agreed with the Commonwealth and reversed the Superior Court, reinstating the judgment of sentence for first-degree murder, aggravated assault and related offenses in the underlying case.
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