Commonwealth v. Stern

TAMILIA, Judge:

Appellant herein, Lewis Stern, appeals judgment of sentence of life plus two and one-half to five years imprisonment imposed following his convictions of first degree murder 1 and possession of an instrument of crime.2 Appellant and co-defendant, Steven Johnson, were convicted at a jury trial in which the evidence established that Johnson hired Stern to kill James Clark for Clark’s failure to return drug money to Johnson after Clark made sales for him. An eyewitness, Joe Buxton, testified he saw not only the killing but the set-up by Johnson to get Clark to the murder scene.

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