Travis v. Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance

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• concluding that appellant failed to demonstrate he was prejudiced by counsel’s alleged ineffectiveness where he confessed to committing the crimes
• concluding that the proper remedy when the trial court abused its discretion in considering the defendant’s ineffectiveness claims presented in a post-sentence motion on direct appeal was to dismiss those claims without prejudice to the defendant to bring them under the PCRA
• explaining that “[a]t the outset, we recognize the procedural posture of this direct appeal is such that we must initially address the trial court’s entertaining of Burno’s ineffective assistance of counsel’s claims on post-sentence motions”
• holding Burno failed to demonstrate prejudice when the record reflected that: (1
• finding prosecutor’s plea to the jury to “[f]ind [defendant] guilty of first degree murder” was not “objectionable prosecutorial misconduct”
• dismissing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel without prejudice to raise on collateral appeal where trial court addressed merits of ineffectiveness claims raised in post-sentence motions without considering applicability of Holmes exceptions

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