Court Opinion

ID: 9736144
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 18:45:07.038839+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:27:04.455371
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HUTCHINSON, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result. The record shows that the suppression of this evidence substantially impaired the Commonwealth’s case. Moreover, the suppression court was wrong in holding that this evidence had to be excluded. Unfortunately, the majority has made the same mistake as Superior Court in dealing, in a massive dictum, with the question of what might happen if it did not plainly appear that the suppression substantially impaired the Commonwealth’s case. Under Commonwealth v. Bosurgi, 411 Pa. 56, 190 A.2d 304 (1963), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 910, 84 S.Ct. 204, 11 L.Ed.2d 149 (1963), this case is plainly appealable. I would wait to deal with the issue of when the Commonwealth’s appeal from a suppression order is frivolous or insubstantial until that issue is presented by an appellate record and I would further caution Superior Court to do the same.