Commonwealth v. Collins

OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE. *

The instant matter is before this Court on appellant’s appeal from that part of the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County denying him a new trial pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-9546. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the PCRA court’s denial of a new trial.

On May 18, 1993, a jury sitting before the late Honorable Justice Juanita Kidd Stout convicted appellant of first-degree murder and possessing an instrument of crime. 1 The convictions arose from the shooting death of Andre Graves in the early…