Commonwealth v. Rounds

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

This appeal raises one issue for consideration, whether Appellant’s trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to or strike the introduction into evidence of a medical expert’s opinion when the facts upon which that opinion was based were not part of the existing record or subsequently disclosed to the jury. 1 The Appellant was convicted by a jury of violating § 3123 of the Crimes Code. 2 During the trial, the Commonwealth presented the testimony of the victim, who was the Appellant’s son, a classmate of the victim, one of the victim’s school teachers, and a…