Court Opinion

ID: 9637076
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:55:58.381845+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:52.978114
License: Public Domain

*226CONCURRING AND DISSENTING STATEMENT BY
McEWEN, P.J.E.:
¶ 1 Since the author of the majority opinion has, in his usual fashion, undertaken a careful analysis of the issues presented in this appeal, and has proceeded to a perceptive expression of position, I join in the opinion, with the exception that I would affirm the judgment of sentence upon the conviction for aggravated harassment by a prisoner. I would do so since appellant was “confined” (as the majority notes, the police and hospital personnel were required to subdue appellant, employ restraint straps and a protective face mask, and to sedate appellant), and the hospital was thereby a local detention facility. It strikes me that the General Assembly could not have intended to present to appellant a pass from conviction for aggravated harassment in a situation where the police provided for treatment of the prisoner instead of transporting him to the police building and impressing upon him the untoward consequences of a considerable delay in securing medical personnel to provide treatment of the injuries.
¶ 2 Thus, I would affirm the judgment of sentence in its entirety.