Court Opinion

ID: 9646904
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:15:40.693861+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:27.344764
License: Public Domain

*426WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I join Judge Cercone’s excellent opinion. I write separately only to emphasize my continued adherence to the view that the merger of offenses for sentencing purposes is an issue which is waived by failure to raise it in a post-sentencing motion to modify the sentence where, as here, merger is not apparent from the face of the record and can be determined only after a review and analysis of the evidence. See: Commonwealth v. Campbell, 351 Pa.Super. 56, 505 A.2d 262 (1986) (Concurring Opinion by Wieand, J.). Under this view, appellant would have waived the merger issue by his failure to file a motion to modify the sentence imposed by the trial court.