Court Opinion

ID: 9700396
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 21:25:56.633926+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:08.539639
License: Public Domain

BOWES, J.,
Concurring.
¶ 1 I join in the majority’s decision to dismiss Appellant’s claim of trial counsel’s ineffectiveness until collateral review. I write separately to make an additional observation. In this case, the record indicates counsel had a reasonable basis for declining a cautionary instruction and was not therefore, ineffective. However, in light of the Supreme Court’s recent pronouncement in Commonwealth v. Grant, — Pa.-, 813 A.2d 726 (2002), I agree that these claims should be dismissed without prejudice for Appellant to raise them in a PCRA petition.