Court Opinion

ID: 9754266
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 19:52:50.134627+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:27:51.277157
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HOFFMAN, Judge,
concurring:
The majority concludes that:
[i]n the past, this court has found issues to have been waived where no 1925(b) statement was filed or where an issue was not included in a filed statement____ However, the amendments to the Rules of Criminal Procedure, which became effective for determinations of guilt occurring after January 1, 1994, require re-evaluation of this waiver concept.
Cortes, supra 442 Pa.Super. 258, 659 A.2d 573. I cannot agree with my colleague’s position that the creation of the new Pa.R.Crim.P. 1410 may have an effect on the waiver provision of Appellate Rule 1925(b). The plain reading of Rule 1410 *263suggests only that the filing of post-sentencing motions are now optional and that the failure to file these motions will no longer result in the waiver of issues on appeal. See 1 Pa.C.S. § 1901 (where language of statute is clear and unambiguous, judiciary must read its provisions in accordance with their plain meaning and common usage).1 Furthermore, after an extensive review of the comment and the Committee explanatory report to the changes in Rule 1410, I find no evidence that the Supreme Court intended this rule to supercede the waiver provision provided by Appellate Rule 1925(b).
Accordingly, for these reasons, I concur.

. We have previously stated that the rules of statutory construction may be applied to interpret the rules of criminal procedure. Commonwealth v. Hightower, 438 Pa.Super. 400, 652 A.2d 873, 873 n. 1 (1995) (citing Pa.R.Crim.P. 2).