Commonwealth v. Perez

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

Juan Perez appeals his conviction for second-degree murder in the robbery-shooting of Michael Sharpe, for which he received the mandatory life sentence. Perez filed no post-verdict motions, but now challenges the sufficiency and weight of the evidence on appeal. In the alternative, he argues that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to preserve these and other issues in post-verdict motions.

Perez sold counterfeit drugs on North Orkney Street in Philadelphia; nobody would entrust him with real drugs, because he would use them instead of sell them. In October of 1991,…