Court Opinion

ID: 9727600
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 13:44:34.58765+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:40.594406
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KELLY, Judge,
concurring:
I join in the opinion of the majority. I write separately to note that my joinder in no way indicates agreement with this Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Beauford, 327 Pa.Super. 253, 475 A.2d 783 (1984), appeal dismissed 508 Pa. 319, 496 A.2d 1143 (1985), which held that a warrant based upon probable cause was required to justify installation of a pen register device.
I am of the opinion that the middle ground analysis recently embraced by our Supreme Court in Commonwealth v. Tarbert, 517 Pa. 277, 535 A.2d 1035 (1987) (upholding the constitutionality of systematic drunk driving roadblocks) and Commonwealth v. Johnston, 515 Pa. 454, 530 A.2d 74 (1987) (upholding the constitutionality of canine sniff searches based upon reasonable suspicion), would compel different analysis and a different conclusion than that of this Court in Beauford. Cf. Commonwealth v. Schaeffer, 370 Pa.Super. 179, 224-269, 536 A.2d 354, 377-400 (1987) (Kelly, J., dissenting) (similar analysis relating to consensual electronic participant monitoring); Commonwealth v. Leninsky, 360 Pa.Super. 49, 519 A.2d 984 (1986) (per Kelly, J.) (similar analysis relating to systematic drunk driving roadblocks).