Court Opinion

ID: 9728705
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:14:43.416867+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:51.182452
License: Public Domain

McDERMOTT, Justice,
dissenting.
In Commonwealth v. Roxberry, [J-7-91] 529 Pa. 160, 602 A.2d 826 (1991), this Court held that a defendant may on his own testimony raise the alibi defense, and need not produce any corroborating evidence. In today’s decision the Court has decided that not only can the defendant raise the alibi defense sans corroboration, he may also chose to raise it and support his defense with evidence which goes to an alternative defense (i.e. lack of motive).
Because I agree with the trial judge that the evidence offered was not germane to the alibi defense which was offered, it was properly excluded.