Court Opinion

ID: 9692833
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 16:07:50.561816+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:37.263639
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MONTEMURO, Judge,
concurring:
I concur in Judge Popovich’s conclusion that this appeal should be quashed because of the Commonwealth’s failure *447to certify that the suppression order “terminates or substantially handicaps the litigation.” See Commonwealth v. Dugger, 506 Pa. 537, 486 A.2d 382 (1985) (Commonwealth appeal of suppression order is proper as an appeal from a final order only when Commonwealth complies with the certification procedure). However, I do not believe that it is necessary to analyze the portion of the trial court’s order purporting to sustain the defendant’s summary appeal. Because it is clear that only a suppression hearing was being conducted and the truth-determining process had not yet begun, I would simply find that the language purporting to sustain the appeal is superfluous and treat the order as granting appellee’s suppression motion. Accordingly, I would not treat this order as comprised of two distinct parts, but rather exclusively as a suppression order, and would quash the Commonwealth’s appeal for failing to comply with the dictates of Dugger, supra.