Court Opinion

ID: 9646488
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:00:58.584655+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:38.543252
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*12HOFFMAN, Judge,
dissenting:
I cannot accept the compromise proffered by the Majority in its commendable attempt to reconcile the conflicting case law on when the Commonwealth may appeal the grant of a suppression order. I continue to adhere to my position, approved by a Majority of our Court in Commonwealth v. DeFelice, 248 Pa.Super. 516, 375 A.2d 360 (1977), that we must quash a Commonwealth appeal unless our review of the record indicates that the suppression order in fact terminates or substantially handicaps the prosecution. In the instant case, my review of the record does not reveal the requisite prejudice. Accordingly, I dissent and would quash the Commonwealth’s appeal.