Court Opinion

ID: 9697734
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:27:58.552303+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:34.975557
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OLSZEWSKI, Judge,
dissenting:
While I agree wholeheartedly with Commonwealth v. Bruder, 365 Pa.Super. 106, 528 A.2d 1385 (1987) and Commonwealth v. Conway, 368 Pa.Super. 488, 534 A.2d 541 (1987), that Miranda warnings must be given prior to custodial interrogation, I must respectfully dissent. As this Court stated in Bruder: “In order to reverse on the basis of introduction of inadmissible evidence, we must find an abuse of discretion as well as a showing of actual prejudice resulting from the tainted evidence.” Bruder, 365 Pa.Super. at 114, 528 A.2d at 1388. Instantly, I would find that the only inadmissible evidence was the police officer’s request that appellant calculate the date of his sixth birthday and appellant’s response thereto. Thus, I would find that appellant was not prejudiced by the introduction of inadmissible evidence since this was a non-jury trial and the trial judge was presented with enough evidence to convict appellant even without the tainted evidence.
Accordingly, I would affirm the judgment of sentence.