Court Opinion

ID: 9699651
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 20:43:51.926881+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:44:38.366739
License: Public Domain

*352Concurring and Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bell:
I concur in the Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Littlejohn. I dissent from the Court’s decision and Opinion in Commonwealth v. Archambault, which completely changes the very long and well established law of Pennsylvania. Furthermore, if Justice Roberts is right, then every defendant who obtains a new trial after a conviction of any and every crime cannot, on re-conviction at his new trial, receive a higher or greater sentence than was imposed at his first trial; and this would be so even if the evidence at re-trial was different from and stronger than the evidence at his first trial and warranted a more severe sentence.