Court Opinion

ID: 9756929
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 22:09:49.719493+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:33.440462
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WIEAND, Judge, concurring:
I agree with the majority’s conclusion that a jury instruction on the defense of duress should have included a definition of the term “recklessly” as contained in the Crimes Code at 18 Pa.C.S. § 302. In order to prevail upon a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, however, appellant was *602required to demonstrate that counsel’s failure to object to the erroneous jury charge was unreasonable and so egregious as to have deprived him of a fair trial, i.e., a trial whose result was reliable. See: Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). Because, in my judgment, appellant failed to demonstrate such prejudice, I agree that the judgment of sentence should be affirmed.