# Commonwealth v. Rolan

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · October 18, 1988 · 520 Pa. 1

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9746735

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Florencio ROLAN, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** October 18, 1988
- **Citations:** 520 Pa. 1; 549 A.2d 553; 1988 Pa. LEXIS 253
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Nix
- **Judges:** Papadakos, Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Zappala
- **Cited by:** 39 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

*17 NIX, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the majority’s conclusion that you cannot find ineffective assistance of counsel predicated upon counsel’s failure to pursue the objection to the exclusion of veniremen due to their reluctance to impose the death penalty. Nevertheless, I am still in disagreement with the decisions in this Commonwealth that permit a death-prone jury to be impaneled in these cases where capital punishment is an available sanction. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Peterkin, 511 Pa. 299, 330 , 513 A.2d 373, 389 (1986) (Nix, C.J., concurring).

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