Commonwealth v. Haskins

OPINION BY

WECHT, J.:

In this consolidated appeal,1 the Commonwealth appeals from the Court of Common Pleas’ July 5, 2011 order. That order granted the petitions filed by Appel-lees Esheem Haskins (“Haskins”) and Jerome King (“Bang”) pursuant to the Post-Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), 42 Pa. C.S. §§ 9541^46, and awarded each of *541them a new trial. Following careful review, we reverse.

In King’s direct appeal, we quoted the trial court’s recitation of the Commonwealth’s evidence in this case as follows:

On February 2, 2005, [King] came up from behind Nathaniel Giles (hereinafter, the victim) and,…