Court Opinion

ID: 9698701
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:57:58.072753+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:42.882841
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*132BECK, Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent and would quash the Commonwealth’s appeal. Although improper procedure was arguably employed below by both parties, the majority in its zeal for procedural correctness ignores a fundamental rule of procedure for this court. That is, this court accepts appeals ■ only from final orders of the lower court. 42 Pa.C.S. § 742. The decertification order, whether or not it was proper below, is an interlocutory order and, hence, unappealable at this time. Conspicuously, the majority does not even mention this threshold issue in its opinion. In sharing the majority’s concern for proper procedure, then, I must dissent and would quash this appeal as unripe for review.