# Commonwealth v. Brown

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · June 5, 1978 · 478 Pa. 628

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9730515

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Allen Jerome BROWN, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** June 5, 1978
- **Citations:** 478 Pa. 628; 387 A.2d 665; 1978 Pa. LEXIS 691
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Pomeroy
- **Judges:** Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino, Larsen
- **Cited by:** 5 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

*630 POMEROY, Justice,
concurring.
Appellant asserts a number of instances of trial counsel’s ineffectiveness. My review of these claims convinces me that there is arguable merit in several of them and that failure of trial counsel to take action or pursue a different tactic could, absent some reasonable basis for counsel’s action, add up to constitutional ineffectiveness. On the basis of the present record, however, it is not possible to ascertain the purpose for counsel’s omissions. Thus, I concur in the remand for an evidentiary hearing. See Commonwealth v. Hubbard, 472 Pa. 259 , 372 A.2d 687 (1977).

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