Title: Commonwealth v. Jerry Marshall (Concurring Opinion)

State: pennsylvania

Issuer: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Document:

[J-93-1999] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Appellee v. JERRY J. MARSHALL, JR. Appellant : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : No. 216 CAP Direct Appeal from the Order of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, dated December 29, 1997, denying relief under the Post-Conviction Relief Act SUBMITTED: April 5, 1999 CONCURRING OPINION MR. JUSTICE CAPPY DECIDED: November 22, 2002 I cannot join the majority opinion to the extent that it reviews Appellant's arguments as claims of trial court error. Appellant presents some of his claims in terms of trial court error and the majority opinion addresses those claims in kind. I cannot join the merits analysis as to those claims, since Appellant failed to comply with the Pierce1 standard of ineffectiveness and thus, such claims are waived. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Albrecht, 720 A.2d 693 (Pa. 1998)(eliminating relaxed waiver in capital cases for purposes of collateral review). In all other respects, I join the majority opinion. 1 Commonwealth v. Pierce, 527 A.2d 973 (Pa. 1987).