Court Opinion

ID: 9747533
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 15:19:41.589086+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:24.373146
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ROBERTS, Justice,
concurring.
I join in the opinion of the majority except insofar as it suggests that the standard for admissibility of photographs of homicide victims, whether the photographs *529have such essential evidentiary value as to clearly outweigh the likelihood of prejudice, applies only if the photographs are “inflammatory.” See Commonwealth v. Petrakovich, 459 Pa. 511, 527, 329 A.2d 844, 852 (1974) (dissenting opinion) (“The inflammatory nature of the picture is considered only to determine whether the evidence meets this standard, not whether the test should be applied at all.”).