Court Opinion

ID: 9765302
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:59:13.459702+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:08.483624
License: Public Domain

Justice BALDWIN
concurring.
I join the majority opinion in full. I write separately, however, to reiterate the position that I detailed in Commonwealth v. Carson, 590 Pa. 501, 615, 913 A.2d 220, 287 (2006) (Baldwin, J. concurring), that an instruction pursuant to Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154, 114 S.Ct. 2187, 129 L.Ed.2d 133 (1994) (plurality) should be given in every capital case. However, as this is not the prevailing view, I am compelled to agree with the majority that the Simmons issue was waived.
Justice FITZGERALD joins this concurring opinion.