Court Opinion

ID: 9634844
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:25:52.203661+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:11.159120
License: Public Domain

LARSEN, Justice,
concurring.
I join the majority opinion. Additionally, I find further support for the principle of free public access to arrest warrant affidavits and other documents filed in criminal proceedings in Article I, section 7 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. That section provides:
The printing press shall be free to every person who may undertake to examine the proceedings of the Legislature or any branch of government, and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty____