Opinion
No. 104 EAL 2022
10-04-2022
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Petitioner v. Ronald HARRIS, Respondent
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW , this 4th day of October, 2022, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED . The issue, rephrased for clarity, is:
Whether the Commonwealth, based on constitutional or non-constitutional principles, is prohibited from proceeding to trial following a preliminary hearing where it presented non-hearsay evidence establishing elements of the crimes charged and established the defendant's identity through hearsay evidence from officers who personally interviewed the shooting victim in the immediate aftermath of the crime and to whom the
victim identified his shooters by name and in the photographs.