The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has awarded Lawrence Smith a new sentencing hearing. While it upheld his first degree murder convictions, it ordered a new sentencing hearing because it found that some of the most damaging evidence presented during the first hearing was not reliable. Specifically, testimony related to the prosecutions assertions that Smith had assaulted another inmate while in the state prison was found flawed because there was no indication that the witness had first hand knowledge of the events in question.
Death row inmate gets resentencing
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