Opinion
No. 167 EAL 2019
09-03-2019
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent v. Keenan COLEMAN, Petitioner
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW , this 3rd day of September, 2019, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED . The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Where multiple inculpatory hearsay statements are improperly admitted against an accused, may a reviewing court dismiss the claim by averring the statements were not offered for their truth if the jury was not so instructed?
(2) Whether, in the face of this Court's clear 404(b) decisional law barring mention of guns not linked to the crime at hand, a prosecutor may introduce evidence that an accused "liked to shoot people" and carried all types of guns, a preserved claim the Superior Court never addressed?
(3) May a prosecutors tell jurors that defense counsel was wrong in urging them to look at individual errors in the case and that they must instead "look at it all together," an urging that reduces the burden of proof?