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Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Charles Carter
Author : Supreme Court of Tennessee
Release Date : January 22, 1983
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 76 KB

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Appellant, Charles Carter, appeals directly from the judgment of sentence of ten to twenty years imprisonment imposed by Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas following his conviction by a jury of third degree murder. Appellant argues his trial counsel was ineffective because he did not make an exception when the trial court failed to instruct the jury on the complete statutory definition of voluntary manslaughter. Although the judge instructed the jury on "heat of passion" voluntary manslaughter, it did not instruct on "unreasonable belief" voluntary manslaughter as defined in the Crimes Code, Act of December 6, 1972, P.L. 1482, No. 334, ? 1, 18 Pa.C.S. ? 2503(b). We now hold a trial court shall charge on this type of voluntary manslaughter only when requested, where that sub-class of the offense of voluntary manslaughter has been made an issue in the case