Court Opinion

ID: 9699444
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 20:24:24.712585+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:50.404525
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POMEROY, Justice,
dissenting.
Although the majority correctly states the law applicable to the grant of a new trial based on after-discovered evidence,* I am not persuaded that the Social Security data offered as after-discovered evidence in this case satisfies the second or fourth criteria of our test, viz., that the material will not be merely corroborative or cumulative, or that a new trial based upon it will likely result in a verdict for appellant. Thus, I cannot say that the trial court abused its *508discretion in refusing a new trial on this ground. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.

 See also, e. g., Commonwealth v. Dowd, 472 Pa. 296, 305, 372 A.2d 705 (1977); Commonwealth v. Treftz, 465 Pa. 614, 627-30, 351 A.2d 265 (1976); Commonwealth v. Dawson, 464 Pa. 254, 257-58, 346 A.2d 545 (1975); Commonwealth v. Tervalon, 463 Pa. 581, 586-89, 345 A.2d 671 (1975); Commonwealth v. Coleman, 438 Pa. 373, 264 A.2d 649 (1970); Commonwealth v. Schuck, 401 Pa. 222, 229, 164 A.2d 13, 17 (1960), cert. denied, 368 U.S. 884, 82 S.Ct. 138, 7 L.Ed.2d 188 (1961).