Opinion

Commonwealth v. Ferguson

  • 289 Pa. Super. 163
  • 432 A.2d 1103
  • 1981 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3102
Court
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Jul 24, 1981
Status
Published
Author
Wickersham
On the bench
Wickersham, Hoffman and Van Der Voort
Cited by
8 cases

The opinion

Concurring Statement by

WICKERSHAM, Judge:

I join in the Majority Opinion of Judge Van der Voort.

As I view the record in this case, the trial judge, the Honorable Joseph W. de Furia, did not express his opinion on guilt or innocence, nor did he give his views on the credibility of a particular witness. What Judge de Furia did do was tell the jury that they should not be confused by *173 defendant’s sympathetic motive for committing a crime. As the judge said, “I am going to leave it for you.” The case was fairly tried and the defendant properly convicted of having sold cocaine and other drugs to Pennsylvania State Police Officers on several occasions in the Fall of 1978 on a McDonald’s parking lot in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania.

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