The Pennsylvania Superior Court has affirmed the conviction of a former Rochester man convicted in the death of a Bradford woman in 2021.
Brady Pysadee was convicted in August 2024 of delivering fentanyl that resulted in the death of Mercedes Simonds.
Pysadee’s lawyers argued that the jury should not have been permitted to hear hearsay statements from the deceased victim about obtaining drugs from Pysadee.
The Superior Court noted that the evidence in the case was abundant including Pysadee’s own statements made to the victim that were revealed in phone records that the drugs he was going to give her were so strong that they made him sick when he used them, toxicology results that showed that the victim ingested three times the lethal amount of fentanyl, video surveillance showed Pysadee meeting with the victim at the relevant time, and a medical expert’s testimony regarding the manner of death – all noted by the Court to have supported the conviction.
Pysadee remains incarcerated and serving his sentence.
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