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- Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Adam andrew Topa
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 28, 1977
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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Appellant, Adam Andrew Topa, was tried before a jury and convicted of murder in the first degree. From his conviction he filed a motion for new trial delineating fifteen reasons in support thereof. The court en banc denied appellants motion. On this appeal, appellant urges us to re-examine six issues which he believes warrant reversal and command a new trial. Five of these arguments relate to the use made by the Commonwealth of a tape recording of a telephone call received by the police from an individual who identified himself as "Roger Ferretti" and claimed to have committed the murder for which appellant was convicted. Because we find that