Commonwealth v. McBride

WIEAND, Judge:

In this criminal action, both the defendant and the Commonwealth have filed appeals. Charles J. McBride, Sr., who was found guilty by a jury of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, 1 contends that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective. The Commonwealth argues that the trial court improperly refused to impose the mandatory minimum sentence required by 42 Pa.C.S. § 9712.

The charges resulted from an altercation between McBride, on the one hand, and Terry and Brian Shaffer, on the other. Terry Shaffer was an off-duty state trooper, and Brian…