Court Opinion

ID: 9750336
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 14:50:52.731473+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:26:07.742749
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LARSEN, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent, and, in support thereof, I adopt the within Superior Court opinion authored by the Honorable John P. Hester. Commonwealth v. Conahan, 388 Pa.Super. 369, 565 A.2d 798 (1989).
The majority has indulged in “blatant judicial interference.” See Cucchi v. Rollins Protective Services Co., 524 Pa. 514, 574 A.2d 565 (1990) (Cappy, J., dissenting). The legislature, in no uncertain terms, has prescribed that punishment is the treatment for those callous individuals who drink and drive at the same time. The majority would allow poor Johnny to confine himself to a Caribbean Island or a Caribbean cruise for thirty days and call it confinement/imprisonment because, if he terminated his vacation early, i.e., “broke his restraints,” he could not receive credit for this “onerous imprisonment.” What a sweetheart deal for criminals. Next thing we know, rapists will go free if they hide under their beds or in their closets sucking their thumbs.
Accordingly, I would affirm the order of the Superior Court which reversed and remanded for further proceedings.