Commonwealth v. Hutchinson

OPINION

Justice McCAFFERY.

This is an appeal from the denial of guilt phase relief sought by Steven Hutchinson (“Appellant”) in a petition filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”).1 Concluding that the ruling of the PCRA court is supported by the record and free of legal error, we affirm.

On December 9, 1999, a jury convicted Appellant of first-degree murder and other crimes for shooting to death one of his girlfriends, Stephanie Epps, in front of her two young children. The children had testified at trial, unequivocally identifying Appellant as the individual who had shot their…