Commonwealth v. Colavita

OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE. *

The Commonwealth appeals from the published opinion and order of the Superior Court, which reversed the order of the PCRA 1 court, vacated appellee’s judgment of sentence for third-degree murder, and remanded the case for a new trial. The Superior Court held that appellee’s trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the prosecutor’s commentary concerning appellee having consulted with an attorney prearrest, finding in the process that the prosecutor’s commentary violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and that the trial record, on…