Court Opinion

ID: 9646678
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:07:26.267708+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:40.593197
License: Public Domain

*528SPAETH, Judge,
concurring and dissenting:
I agree with the majority that we must remand this case for an evidentiary hearing on whether trial counsel was ineffective in failing to secure the presence of certain witnesses. I am unable, however, to join in footnote 3 of the majority’s opinion, in which the majority summarily rejects as without merit appellant’s other contentions. I believe that before we may make such a decision we need to know the basis of the lower court’s rulings. Here we do not know that basis because the lower court has not supplied us with an opinion. I should therefore remand the matter to the lower court and order it “forthwith [to] file of record at least a brief statement, in the form of an opinion, of the reasons for the order, or for the rulings or other matters complained of, or [to] specify in writing the place in the record where such reasons may be found.” Pa.R.A.P. 1925(a).