Miller v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

In 2006, Appellant James Miller was convicted of possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and being a persistent felony offender in the first degree (PFO I), for which he received a twenty-year prison sentence. Finding error on appeal, this Court remanded the case for a new penalty phase wherein the jury again sentenced Miller to twenty years in prison. Appealing to this Court as a matter of right, Miller claims (1) the *405Commonwealth improperly introduced evidence of his prior uncharged acts of misconduct during the penalty phase; (2) the…