Court Opinion

ID: 9730515
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:14:38.245988+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:05.404927
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*630POMEROY, Justice,
concurring.
Appellant asserts a number of instances of trial counsel’s ineffectiveness. My review of these claims convinces me that there is arguable merit in several of them and that failure of trial counsel to take action or pursue a different tactic could, absent some reasonable basis for counsel’s action, add up to constitutional ineffectiveness. On the basis of the present record, however, it is not possible to ascertain the purpose for counsel’s omissions. Thus, I concur in the remand for an evidentiary hearing. See Commonwealth v. Hubbard, 472 Pa. 259, 372 A.2d 687 (1977).