# Commonwealth v. Ritchie

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 11, 1985 · 509 Pa. 357

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9703077

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. George F. RITCHIE, Appellee
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 11, 1985
- **Citations:** 509 Pa. 357; 502 A.2d 148; 1985 Pa. LEXIS 449
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Hutchinson
- **Judges:** Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Hutchinson, Zappala, Papadakos
- **Cited by:** 38 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed on other grounds by Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39 (1987).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9703077

## Opinion text

HUTCHINSON, Justice,
dissenting.
I join the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Larsen. However, on remand I would instruct the lower court to consider the application of the unqualified statutory privilege of sexual assault counselors for victim’s communications to them, 42 Pa.C.S. § 5945.1, to these facts, as affected by appellee’s right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

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