Commonwealth v. Pursell

OPINION

NEWMAN, Justice.

Alan Pursell (Appellant) appeals an Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County that denied his petition for relief pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA), 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541 et seq., which challenged his conviction and sentence of death for murder in the first degree. 1 We affirm the order of the PCRA court.

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In the Opinion announcing this Court’s decision in Appellant’s direct appeal, the facts of this case were summarized as follows:

On July 24, 1981, in a secluded wooded area of Lawrence Park Township, James Feeney found…