Opinion
No. 4 EAP 2020
08-07-2020
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. Andrew LINEMAN, Appellant
James Richard Lloyd III, Esq., Parkinson, Tarpey & Lloyd, for Appellant. Peter Rosalsky, Esq., Defender Association of Philadelphia, for Appellant Amicus Curiae. Shawn Dontaye Baldwin, Esq., Michael Lee Erlich, Esq., Lawrence Jonathan Goode, Esq., Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, for Appellee.
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 7th day of August, 2020, the order of the Superior Court is REVERSED based on Commonwealth v. Torres, 564 Pa. 219, 766 A.2d 342, 345 (2001) (explaining that a fact-finder's mere disbelief of the defendant's testimony going forward with the evidence relative to a justification defense is "no substitute for the proof the Commonwealth was required to provide to disprove the self-defense claim").