Court Opinion

ID: 9761553
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 01:45:25.51162+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:24.344562
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PRICE, Judge,
dissenting:
This case is clearly distinguishable from Commonwealth v. Jones, 211 Pa.Super. 366, 236 A.2d 834 (1967). I cannot agree that the drug treatment program here involved meets the test of custody as it has been defined over the years by the courts of Pennsylvania. It is true that in Commonwealth v. Usher, 264 Pa.Super. 435, 399 A.2d 1129 (1979); a panel of this court, by a 2-1 split vote, found the Abraxas *170program to constitute custody. I cannot accept that decision, so must take this means of expressing strong disagreement. This, I fear, is but a forerunner of the future under the convoluted system of panels in this court.
I dissent and would affirm the judgment of sentence.