Commonwealth v. James

OPINION BY

STEVENS, P.J.

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County after a jury convicted Appellant Willie James of second-degree murder,1 robbery,2 conspiracy,3 and possessing an instrument of crime (PIC).4 Appellant claims the trial court violated his rights under the Confrontation Clause pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 20 L.Ed.2d 476 (1968)5 when it admitted the redacted confession of his non-testifying *773co-defendant which implicated Appellant as a…