Court Opinion

ID: 9650164
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:26:07.367665+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:44:09.080459
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POMEROY, Justice,
dissenting.
It is my belief that issues which have been properly preserved at all prior stages and are now before this Court for decision should be resolved before a remand is ordered on an ineffectiveness of counsel claim. This is because “counsel’s presumed inability to argue with zeal his own trial *494mistakes [should not extend] to other issues on appeal which . he could argue as effectively as anyone.” Commonwealth v. Gardner, 480 Pa. 7, 14, 389 A.2d 58, 61 (1978) (Pomeroy, J., dissenting). I therefore dissent from the Court’s refusal to reach the retroactivity question in this, case.*

 Cf. Commonwealth v. Lynch, 477 Pa. 390, 383 A.2d 1263 (1978); id., 477 Pa. at 396, 383 A.2d at 1266 (Pomeroy, J., concurring); Commonwealth v. Colbert, 476 Pa. 531, 542, 383 A.2d 490 (1978) (opinion in support of affirmance); Commonwealth v. Ernst, 476 Pa. 102, 381 A.2d 1245 (1977) (opinion in support of affirmance).