Court Opinion

ID: 9766928
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:03:33.721044+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:27.273192
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HOFFMAN, Judge,
concurring:
I agree with the majority’s conclusion here that if there is no indication that a witness has been promised leniency by the Commonwealth, the witness may not be questioned in cross-examination about other indictments. I believe, however, that state decisional law is dispositive of this issue and that reliance, however slight, on Davis v. Alaska, 415 U.S. 308, 94 S.Ct. 1105, 39 L.Ed.2d 347 (1974), and on the harmless error doctrine in Commonwealth v. Story, 476 Pa. 391, 383 A.2d 155 (1978), is unnecessary.