Court Opinion

ID: 9648928
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:38:31.918396+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:06.412668
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MONTEMURO, Judge,
dissenting:
I dissent from the majority’s conclusion that a new trial is warranted in this case.
First, I find appellant’s claim concerning the admissibility of the Commonwealth’s expert to have been waived. Appellant’s post trial motion, in raising this issue, states only that “the trial judge failed to sustain the defendant’s objection to all the testimony of the Commonwealth’s witness Maddie-Jane Sobel.” Pa.R.Crim.P. 1123(a) reads in pertinent part that “only those issues raised and the grounds relied upon in the motions that are stated specifically and with particularity may be argued or heard.” (Emphasis added.) The required specificity is notably absent from appellant’s claim, thus removing it from our consideration. “[I]t is no longer merely a warning, but the law, that all issues not specifically raised in post-verdict motions are waived on appeal.” Commonwealth v. Little, 354 Pa.Super. 546, 512 A.2d 674, 678 (1986)(citations omitted).
Next, the majority has relied upon the relevance, or its absence, of the proposed testimony as justification for reversal. At no time has appellant advanced this theory, arguing rather that the testimony preempts the jury’s function as the assessor of a witness’ credibility.
Accordingly, I would affirm.