A Pennsylvania man’s second-degree murder conviction may stand, even though the same jury that found him guilty of murder acquitted him of robbery, the predicate offense in his case, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
In reversing the state Superior Court’s decision to throw out Antoine Miller’s murder conviction, the justices decided the intermediate appellate court had erred by relying on precedent in which the court examined a different crime, ethnic intimidation, as requiring the commission of a predicate offense. Statutorily defined more broadly, the crime of second-degree murder did not, the court decided.
