Court Opinion

ID: 9634542
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:16:28.506621+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:04.855727
License: Public Domain

Concurring Statement by
WICKERSHAM, Judge:
I join in the Majority Opinion of Judge Van der Voort.
As I view the record in this case, the trial judge, the Honorable Joseph W. de Furia, did not express his opinion on guilt or innocence, nor did he give his views on the credibility of a particular witness. What Judge de Furia did do was tell the jury that they should not be confused by *173defendant’s sympathetic motive for committing a crime. As the judge said, “I am going to leave it for you.” The case was fairly tried and the defendant properly convicted of having sold cocaine and other drugs to Pennsylvania State Police Officers on several occasions in the Fall of 1978 on a McDonald’s parking lot in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania.