# Commonwealth v. Allshouse

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 29, 2009 · 604 Pa. 61

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9535879

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. Ricky Lee ALLSHOUSE, Jr., Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 29, 2009
- **Citations:** 604 Pa. 61; 985 A.2d 847; 2009 Pa. LEXIS 2783
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Saylor
- **Judges:** Castille, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Todd, Greenspan, McCaffery
- **Cited by:** 28 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed on other grounds by Allshouse v. Pennsylvania, 179 L. Ed. 2d 495 (2011).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9535879

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- observing there is “no inherent problem with the court’s decision to forego ordering a repayment schedule until after appellant is released from incarceration”

## Opinion text

Justice SAYLOR,
concurring.
I join the majority opinion.
My only addition is to highlight the tension between the testimonial litmus of Craivford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 , 124 S.Ct. 1354 , 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), and the plain terms of the Sixth Amendment. See U.S. Const., amend. VI (“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him”). The many open questions in the wake of the immense shift in Confrontation Clause jurisprudence heralded by Crawford leaves lower-tier federal courts and state courts in a difficult position in terms of predicting the appropriate limits of this critical Sixth Amendment provision, as newly construed. Accord Michael H. Graham, 30B Fed. Prac. & Proc. Evid. § 7033 (2009).
I credit the majority opinion for doing the best job possible in such circumstances.
Chief Justice CASTILLE joins this concurring opinion.

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