Commonwealth v. Rosendary

OPINION BY

CAVANAUGH, J.:

¶ 1 Jeffrey Mario Rosendary appeals from the judgment of sentence of from six months to two years imprisonment imposed after he was convicted by a jury of resisting arrest. His only claims on direct appeal raise allegations of trial counsel’s ineffectiveness. There was no hearing conducted on those claims before the trial court. Our supreme court in Commonwealth v. Grant, - Pa. -, 813 A.2d 726 (2002), recently set forth a new general rule providing that parties “should wait to raise claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel until collateral review.” Id. at 738.…