Court Opinion

ID: 9713396
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:14:43.013925+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:18.575712
License: Public Domain

*155Concurring Statement by
HOFFMAN, Judge:
I join in the Court’s analysis and resolution of the issues. I wish only to emphasize that Herriott’s arrest in no way precipitated Barbara Star’s statement. Police were searching for Star because she was a runaway; they obtained her statement as a result of their finding her, not arresting Herriott. In fact, Herriott’s arrest was the result of Star’s statement, hot the other way around. Thus, unlike the situation in Commonwealth v. Cephas, 447 Pa. 500, 291 A.2d 106 (1972), Star’s statement was not obtained by exploiting an alleged illegality about which Herriott had a right to complain. “Fourth Amendment rights are personal rights which, like some other constitutional rights, may not be vicariously asserted.” Alderman v. United States, 394 U.S. 165, 174, 89 S.Ct. 961, 967, 22 L.Ed.2d 176 (1969). See Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128, 99 S.Ct. 421, 58 L.Ed.2d 387 (1978). Accordingly, we need not discuss whether use of the exclusionary rule would be appropriate in this case. See United States v. Ceccolini, 435 U.S. 268, 98 S.Ct. 1054, 55 L.Ed.2d 268 (1978); Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 83 S.Ct. 407, 9 L.Ed.2d 441 (1963).