Court Opinion

ID: 9762845
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:32:33.307979+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:37.927419
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WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I agree with the majority that a trial court may correct a clerical error, and I join that portion of the majority’s opinion.
For reasons stated in my Concurring Opinion in Commonwealth v. Campbell, — Pa.Super. —, 505 A.2d 262 (1986), I would hold that the merger of offenses for sentencing purposes was waived by appellant’s failure to raise it when he was previously sentenced to probation for robbery.
Moreover, I am unable to agree that where, as here, the robber shot and injured another during the course of a robbery, the offenses should merge for the purpose of imposing sentence. The robbery was complete when, in order to commit a theft, appellant used a gun to put his victim in fear of immediate serious bodily injury. When he thereafter shot his victim he committed a separate offense of aggravated assault for which he could properly be sentenced separately.
I concur that the judgment of sentence for robbery should be affirmed.
CAVANAUGH, J., joins.