Court Opinion

ID: 9641573
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:35:08.397039+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:51:03.829044
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MANDERINO, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result by the majority because the colloquy conducted in open court pursuant to Pa.R.Cr.P. 1123(c) did not take place. That Rule requires the trial judge to inform a person on the record of his appellate rights. In other areas where our rules require an on-the-record colloquy to inform a person of his rights, we have refused to go outside the record. The colloquy must be on the record. See, e. g., Commonwealth v. Myrick, 468 Pa. 155, 360 A.2d 598 (1976); Commonwealth v. Ingram, 455 Pa. 198, 316 A.2d 77 (1974) (under Pa.R.Cr.P. 319(a), guilty plea colloquy must be on the record); Commonwealth v. Williams, 454 Pa. 368, 312 A.2d 597 (1963) (under Pa.R.Cr.P. 1101, waiver of jury trial colloquy must be on the record).
The Rule is a salutary one. It avoids additional hearings in order to determine what could easily have been determined in a colloquy on the record as required by the rules.