Commonwealth v. Brandt

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• “We choose to follow the general rules of ineffective assistance and those cases which find prejudice a necessary element.”
• counsel’s failure to object to voir dire conducted in chambers rather than in open court did not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel where petitioner failed to show, among other things, that jury selected in another manner would have reached a different verdict
• counsel’s failure to object to voir dire conducted in chambers rather than in open court did not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel where petitioner failed to show, among other things, that jury selected in another manner would have reached a different verdict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Carelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-15· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Tyson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-18· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Quier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-10· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Hancharik
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-27· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-04· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Kincade
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-21· cited 3×