Commonwealth v. Winstead

HOFFMAN, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant’s petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act (PCHA), 42 *486Pa. C.S.A. §§ 9541-9551. Appellant contends that counsel was ineffective for failing to (1) impeach the Commonwealth’s witness with his prior inconsistent statements by using the notes of testimony from appellant’s first trial; (2) investigate the scene of the alleged crime and object to an inaccurate diagram of the scene used by the Commonwealth during the trial; (3) request a polling of the individual jurors; and (4) move for a mistrial after it was discovered that a…