Court Opinion

ID: 9728627
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:12:49.330541+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:50.445818
License: Public Domain

ZAPPALA, Justice,
concurring.
While I fully applaud my colleague, Justice Cappy, for his concise and astute analysis and disposition of the issue before us, thereby requiring my joinder, I must in good conscience write separately to voice my disdain as what was heretofore a meaningful tool of trial advocacy has been reduced to a complete nullity.
Not only would the defense bar be insane to make any application for motions in limine, the distinguished members of the bench would be doubly insane to even entertain such a practice. I would note that the trial judge has the authority to defer disposition of motions in limine filed by prosecutors until the trial has actually commenced to avoid *566delay of the trial. Perhaps, just perhaps, the majority may deem it appropriate to mandate that our overtaxed trial judges entertain such motions, thereby becoming nothing more than discovery courts for inquisitive prosecutors. So be it.
CAPPY, J., joins in this concurring opinion.