Court Opinion

ID: 9747697
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 15:28:15.578426+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:25.686606
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*511HOFFMAN, Judge,
dissenting:
While I join in Part I of the Dissenting Opinion by Judge SPAETH, I do not share his view expressed in Part II. I do not believe that we should abandon the well-established rule enunciated in the Majority Opinion in Commonwealth v. DiGiacomo, 463 Pa. 449, 345 A.2d 605 (1975), that facts contained within medical records are admissible but opinions are not. Because the lower court erred in admitting the hospital records of the victim, I would reverse the judgment of sentence and award a new trial. See, also, Commonwealth v. McCloud, 457 Pa. 310, 322 A.2d 653 (1973).