Commonwealth v. Bozic

OPINION BY

STEVENS, J.:

¶ 1 Appellant, Simeon Bozic, appeals from the judgment of sentence of life imprisonment without parole entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, after a jury rejected his duress defense and convicted him of first-degree murder and related offenses for his role in beating and stabbing the twenty-one year old girlfriend of his co-defendant. 1 He claims the trial court abused its discretion in dismissing his weight of the evidence claim, in denying his requests for a mistrial or continuance when a purportedly key defense witness — co-defendant’s wife—…