Court Opinion

ID: 9757031
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Date Created: 2023-08-28 22:15:18.629525+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:34.245242
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SPAETH, Judge,
dissenting:
I dissent for the reasons stated in Judge Hoffman’s Dissenting Opinion in Commonwealth v. Quinlan, 251 Pa.Super. 428, 380 A.2d 854 (1977).
Further with respect to Quinlan, I hope the trial bar and bench will be able to discern the reason for the different results in Quinlan and this case; I cannot, and therefore conclude that Quinlan must be regarded as overruled. The only difference between Quinlan and this case is that in Quinlan the appellant alleged that the record did not prove that he had received written notice, and here the appellant alleged that he had never received written notice.* This difference cannot explain why here the majority (rightly, I believe) refuses to review evidentiary material not of record, whereas in Quinlan the majority accepted evidentiary material not of record.
While I am glad that the majority here refuses to review evidentiary material not of record, I disagree with its deci*348sion to remand. Rules should be simple. No rule could be simpler than a rule that says, “A revocation order cannot stand unless the record shows written notice to the probationer.” To enforce that rule by vacating the order cannot hurt the Commonwealth; at the next hearing it proves the notice. But to remand can only encourage the Commonwealth not to do it right the first time, and will further clutter our already cluttered docket.
The order should be vacated and the record remanded.
HOFFMAN and CERCONE, JJ., join in this opinion.

 There is another apparent difference. In Quinlan, the majority stated, the appellant acknowledged receipt of the violation notice attached to the Commonwealth’s appeal brief “with his signature.” However, as Judge HOFFMAN noted in his dissent, the notice was in fact completely illegible.