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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 7/8/2002

Commonwealth v. Paddy

Citations

  • 800 A.2d 294
  • 569 Pa. 47
  • 2002 Pa. LEXIS 1376

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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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Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Saylor, Former

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