Court Opinion

ID: 9736932
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:10:18.828525+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:23:55.212948
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*262KELLY, Judge,
dissenting.
Respectfully, I dissent based upon the statutory analysis, espoused in Commonwealth v. Dickerson, 533 Pa. 294, 621 A.2d 990 (1993); Commonwealth v. Beatty, 411 Pa.Super. 450, 601 A.2d 1253 (1992) (en banc), alloc. granted, 531 Pa. 644, 612 A.2d 983 (1992); Commonwealth v. Eyster, 401 Pa.Super. 477, 585 A.2d 1027 (1991), appeal denied, 529 Pa. 646, 602 A.2d 857 (1992), that a “previous conviction” must have occurred prior to the commission of a later offense before a “previous conviction” can be used to enhance the offender’s sentence for the later offense.
JOHNSON, J., joins.