Commonwealth v. Thompson

OPINION OF THE COURT

CAPPY, Justice.

This case comes before the Court on appellant’s claim that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the instructions given by the trial court in its final charge to the jury. Appellant asserts that the charge as given was deficient in two specific areas: failure to include a no adverse inference instruction 1 and failure to advise the jury that appellant could be convicted of first degree murder as an accomplice only if appellant possessed the specific intent to kill. The Superior Court rejected appellant’s claims of ineffectiveness and…