Court Opinion

ID: 9641900
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:42:58.708521+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:40.588586
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
I join the majority but, in my view, there is an additional reason to permit the prosecution for aggravated assault. The prosecution for aggravated assault is permitted under 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 110(l)(iii)(A) where the legislature clearly *292provided for subsequent prosecutions when “the offense of which the defendant was formerly convicted or acquitted and the offense for which he is subsequently prosecuted each requires proof of a fact not required by the other and the law defining each of such offenses is intended to prevent a substantially different harm or evil.” The two offenses involved in the instant case, aggravated assault and failure to produce identification at the scene of an accident, are not directed at the same evils and do not involve even remotely similar elements. Thus, the subsequent prosecution for aggravated assault is permitted under the exception found in Section 110(l)(iii)(A).
HUTCHINSON, J., joins this concurring opinion.