Court Opinion

ID: 9640786
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:15:16.722071+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:32.790903
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice,
dissenting.
For the reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in Commonwealth v. Hubbard, 472 Pa. 259, 286, 372 A.2d 687, 700 (1977) (Roberts, J., joined by Manderino, J., dissenting), I remain of the view that a remand for an evidentiary hearing on the ineffectiveness of counsel was useless. “No ‘reasonable basis designed to effectuate’ appellant’s interests” has been, or indeed, could have been, presented which would justify either trial counsel’s failure to object when the district attorney expressly and repeatedly branded appellant a liar, or post-verdict counsel’s failure to raise trial counsel’s ineffectiveness. Id., 472 Pa. at 288, 372 A.2d at 700-701. This case should be remanded for a new trial, just as it should have been twenty-nine months ago.