Commonwealth v. Kelly

CERCONE, President Judge:

Appellee, William J. Kelly, a former Philadelphia police officer, was found guilty by a jury of three counts of perjury, 1 one count of Obstruction of Justice, 2 and one count of Bribery. 3 He was sentenced to concurrent terms of three to twenty-three months imprisonment on each charge of Perjury. On direct appeal, this court affirmed appellee’s judgment of sentence. Our Supreme Court granted a petition for allowance of appeal; it affirmed. Appellee then filed an appeal under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1257(2) in the United States Supreme Court. That court dismissed the appeal for…