Court Opinion

ID: 6316998
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Date Created: 2022-02-23 21:11:53.887036+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:00:32.975729
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                               MIDDLE DISTRICT

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,                   : No. 494 MAL 2021
                                                :
                     Respondent                 :
                                                : Petition for Allowance of Appeal
                                                : from the Order of the Superior Court
              v.                                :
                                                :
                                                :
JONATHAN RIVERA,                                :
                                                :
                     Petitioner                 :

                                        ORDER

PER CURIAM

      AND NOW, this 23rd day of February, 2022, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal

is GRANTED. The issue as stated by petitioner is:

      Whether prejudice is presumed from the improper use at trial of post-arrest, post-
      Miranda silence, requiring the Commonwealth to show beyond a reasonable doubt
      that the error did not affect the verdict—or whether, as the Superior Court held, the
      standard that governs the use of pre-arrest silence, from which prejudice is not
      presumed, also governs constitutional harmless error from the improper use of
      post-arrest, post-Miranda silence?