Court Opinion

ID: 9754895
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:17:47.568789+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:00.506389
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POMEROY, Justice,
dissenting.
This case is almost “on all fours” with Commonwealth v. Evans, 479 Pa. 100, 387 A.2d 854 (1978), and the reasons which prompted my dissent in that case similarly compel a dissent in the case at bar. Id. 479 Pa. at 106-108, 387 A.2d at 857 (dissenting opinion of POMEROY, J., joined by LARSEN, J.). Moreover, while I do not condone the prosecutor’s remark which causes the Court to reverse, I am convinced, upon examination of the assistant district attorney’s argument as a whole and after reviewing the overwhelming evidence presented by the Commonwealth, that the remark in question was beyond a reasonable doubt harmless and that failure to object to it did not constitute constitutional ineffectiveness of defense counsel. In short, I think the post-conviction hearing court properly denied relief and I would affirm its order.