Court Opinion

ID: 9649700
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:06:46.899013+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:14.080758
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Chief Justice CAPPY
concurring.
I join the majority’s holding that, under these facts, the matter be remanded for a new violation of probation (VOP) hearing.1 I write separately, however, because I fear that the majority opinion can be misconstrued as enunciating a per se rule requiring a remand to the trial court for a new VOP hearing in each instance where the VOP hearing record is insufficient to support revocation of probation. Upon disposition of an appeal, an appellate tribunal has an array of options available. 42 Pa.C.S. § 706. Accordingly, I cannot endorse the articulation of a bright-line rule that restricts those options. See e.g., Commonwealth v. Griggs, 314 Pa.Super. 407, 461 A.2d 221 (1983)(Superior Court vacated the judgment of sentence of revocation when the finding of participation in criminal activity was not substantiated at the VOP hearing).
Justice SAYLOR joins this concurring opinion.

. Although, as the majority notes, the issue of sufficiency of the evidence is not before us, I nevertheless agree with the majority's intimation that the evidence presented at the VOP hearing was, indeed, sufficient to support revocation.