456 A.2d 148
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Argued January 28, 1983.
Decided February 4, 1983.
Appeal No. 80-3-587, from Judgments of Sentence of Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Trial Division, Criminal Section, at Nos. 1110, 1112 and 1113 August Sessions 1979, entered May 6, 1980; Juanita Kidd Stout, Judge.
Marlene S. Cooperman, Philadelphia (court-appointed), for appellant.
Robert B. Lawler, Chief, Appeals Div., Sarah B. Vandenbraak, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellee.
Before ROBERTS, C.J., and NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON and ZAPPALA, JJ.
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
Judgments of sentence vacated and record remanded to Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia for an evidentiary hearing on the question of whether trial counsel provided appellant with effective assistance. If on remand the court determines that counsel did not provide effective assistance, it shall grant appellant a new trial. If the court determines
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that counsel was effective, it shall reinstate the judgments of sentence. Either party may appeal to this Court from an adverse determination.
LARSEN, McDERMOTT and ZAPPALA, JJ., would affirm the judgments of sentence.