Commonwealth v. Fries

TAMILIA, Judge:

This is an appeal from judgment of sentence entered after a jury convicted appellant of various offenses including kidnapping, rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, simple assault, theft and burglary. These charges arose from an incident wherein appellant kidnapped a minor female and held her captive in the woods for three days, forcing her to undergo repeated sexual assaults.

Appellant raises seventeen (17) issues for our review. After a thorough review of the record, the parties’ briefs, the lower court opinion, and the relevant case law, we must conclude that the…