Commonwealth v. Laird

How courts have described this case

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• holding that petitioner’s claim of jury and prosecutorial misconduct “has been finally litigated and petitioner cannot obtain post-conviction relief on this basis”
• concluding that the penalty phase prosecutorial argument issue had been finally litigated on direct appeal
• concluding that the PCRA Court erred in reasoning that none of Laird’s penalty-phase claims were cognizable but nevertheless holding that his mitigation-related ineffective-assistance claim lacked merit
• noting that PCRA in effect at time of filing of petition governs claims for relief
• stating that counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for declining to present a meritless claim
• refusing to grant new trial where allegations of juror misconduct occurred eight years after verdict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).