COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. JAMES MONROE BALDWIN

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. JAMES MONROE BALDWIN No. 1897 WDA 2008 2010 PA Super 201 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 11/8/2010
	Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered May 14, 2008, Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County, Criminal Division, at No. CP-02-CR-0001671-2006.
Before: PANELLA, SHOGAN and COLVILLE, JJ.
Opinion by: SHOGAN, J.
Concurring Opinion by: COLVILLE, J.
Appellant, James Monroe Baldwin, appeals from his judgment of sentence of life without parole and consecutive sentence of one to two years entered following his jury convictions of first degree murder and abuse of a corpse. On appeal, Appellant challenges the trial court’s denial of his request to testify on his own behalf after he had waived his right to testify the previous day and after the evidentiary phase of the case was closed. Because we hold that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to reopen the case for submission of this additional testimony, we affirm.

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