Commonwealth v. Fransen

OPINION BY

MUNDY, J.:

Appellant, Lennard Paul Fransen, appeals nunc pro tunc from the July 21, 2004 judgment of sentence of life imprisonment imposed after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder, criminal homicide as an accomplice, and conspiracy to commit criminal homicide.1 After careful review, we affirm.

The trial court summarized the relevant facts of this case as follows.

On the night of November 27, 2002, [the victim] was found dead in his house in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania by a neighbor. The victim had been shot in the upper torso and head seven times and was slumped against…