Commonwealth v. Bond

POPOVICH, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County following appellant’s conviction on the charges of carrying a firearm on a public street, possessing an instrument of crime, making terroristic threats, and recklessly endangering another person. Herein, appellant alleges that the trial court abused its discretion in denying his motion to suppress, conducting his trial, and sentencing him in absentia. We affirm.

On February 21, 1995, appellant and two co-conspirators robbed Dwayne McBurnette at gunpoint. Immediately…