Opinion ID: 2086402
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Heading: Jury Instructions Regarding Accomplice Liability

Text: Next, Appellant argues that in instructing the jury on accomplice liability, the trial court erroneously neglected to instruct the jury that they must find that Appellant himself had the specific intent to kill. Although this argument may have arguable merit, given the charge as a whole and the evidence as presented, we cannot conclude that this charge alleviated the Commonwealth from it's burden of proving that [Appellant] possessed the specific intent to kill [Caldwell]. Commonwealth v. Wayne, 553 Pa. 614, 720 A.2d 456, 465 (1998) (citing Commonwealth v. Prosdocimo, 525 Pa. 147, 578 A.2d 1273 (1990)). Therefore, Appellant is not entitled to relief.