Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-12-21 17:09:44.929216+00
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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT O.P. 65.37

  COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA                 :   IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
                                               :        PENNSYLVANIA
                       Appellant               :
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                v.                             :
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  JESSICA AMBER FROEHLICH                      :   No. 606 WDA 2022

         Appeal from the Suppression Order Entered April 22, 2022
  In the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County Criminal Division at No(s):
                         CP-25-CR-0002135-2021

BEFORE:      BOWES, J., OLSON, J., and COLINS, J.*

CONCURRING STATEMENT BY COLINS, J.:                FILED: December 21, 2023

       I feel compelled to write separately to distinguish that I am joining the

majority memorandum because I believe our Supreme Court’s decision in

Commonwealth v. Hicks, 208 A.3d 916 (Pa. 2019), and this Court’s decision

in Commonwealth v. Malloy, 257 A.3d 142 (Pa. Super. 2021), compel the

result reached in this case. At the same time, I note that the issue of police

officer safety that the dissenting memorandum addresses at length makes me

question the internal logic of Malloy’s holding that prevents officers from

conducting firearms authorization searches incidental to lawful traffic stops

when they are already in possession of the firearms in question.        Without

Malloy, this Court could arguably distinguish Hicks in this case, but I disagree

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* Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court.
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with the dissent that Malloy can be distinguished. For these reasons, I think

this case would warrant en banc review.

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