Court Opinion

ID: 9697520
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:19:07.328751+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:33.254110
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
I join the concurring opinion authored by Mr. Chief Justice Nix as I too see no reason to establish what the chief justice terms a “... separate and distinct defense to homicide.” The law surrounding self-defense has developed adequately to accommodate the effect of long-term physical abuse (Commonwealth v. Watson, 494 Pa. 467, 472, 431 A.2d 949, 952 (1981)) and to go further gives me pause.
NIX, C.J., and McDERMOTT, J., join in this concurring opinion.