Commonwealth v. Johnson, C., Aplt.

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Christopher Lynn Johnson’s PCRA petition challenging his convictions and death sentence. In the portions shown, it held that counsel’s failure to object to the voluntary-intoxication instruction was not prejudicial, that the record supported the finding that no undisclosed agreement existed between the Commonwealth and witness Ryan Laumann, and that Johnson failed to establish relief on his Batson and change-of-venire claims. The opinion’s text is truncated during its analysis of the penalty-phase mitigation claims.