Court Opinion

ID: 9699518
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 20:29:51.066964+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:51.799410
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Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bell :
Plaintiff-appellee waived a hearing by letter dated March 18, 1964, which he presented to the Borough Council at its meeting on April 13, 1964. In this letter he said he was leaving the United States for Italy, *280the land of his birth, until November, 1964, to fulfill his greatest dream.
By this letter, which stated plaintiff’s reasons for being absent from the regular meetings of Council, and which without the slightest doubt were legally inadequate to justify his absences, he waived a hearing. Even a Constitutional right can be waived: Carnley v. Cochran, 369 U.S. 506; Moore v. Michigan, 355 U.S. 155; Uveges v. Pennsylvania, 335 U.S. 437; Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458; Commonwealth v. Aljoe, 420 Pa. 198, 216 A. 2d 50; Commonwealth v. Sliva, 415 Pa. 537, 204 A. 2d 455.
Mr. Justice Roberts joins in this dissenting opinion.