Commonwealth v. Paddy

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• holding that evidence of prior crimes and the events that followed were admissible under the res gestae exception to the rule against admission of prior-crimes evidence
• holding that defendant who acquiesced with strategy not to call witnesses at trial cannot make claim for ineffective assistance of counsel on that basis
• stating that prosecutorial conduct does not occur unless comments had unavoidable effect of prejudicing jurors by forming in minds fixed bias and hostility toward defendant
• stating that prosecutorial conduct does not occur unless comments had unavoidable effect of prejudicing jurors by forming in minds fixed bias and hostility toward defendant
• holding that counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to introduction of former testimony; “[C]ontrary to Paddy’s assertion on appeal, preliminary hearing counsel had obtained at least a portion of Roussaw’s criminal history and put it to effective use.”
• holding that where the trial court conducted a colloquy during which the defendant confirmed that he knew he had a right to call witnesses and agreed with his counsel's decision not to call them, defendant could not later assert that trial counsel was ineffective

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