Court Opinion

ID: 9756597
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 21:39:43.56279+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:25.688966
License: Public Domain

Chief Justice CAPPY,
concurring.
I join the Majority Opinion, with the understanding that in this case, the test for conducting appellate review of the sufficiency of the evidence is whether the evidence and all reasonable inferences deducible therefrom, viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as the prevailing party, was sufficient to establish all of the elements of sexually violent predator (“SVP”) status under 42 Pa.C.S. 9792, see Commonwealth v. Frey, 588 Pa. 326, 904 A.2d 866, 871 (2006), and that Mr. Loop’s testimony as to the process he followed in examining the factors listed in 42 Pa.C.S. 9795.4(b) for assessing SVP status represents nothing more than his own notion of the evaluation the statute required of him. In the present case, this Court was not asked to construe 42 Pa.C.S. 9795.4(b). That matter remains for another day.
Justice BAER joins this concurring opinion.