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164 A.3d 461

Commonwealth v. Brown, D.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 14, 2016

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 2016-12-14

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 2018

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¶1 ORDER

PER CURIAM

¶2 AND NOW, this 14th day of December, 2016, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:

(1) Because an autopsy report constitutes testimonial hearsay, does not use of that report by another expert as the basis of his own opinion violate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of the right of Confrontation?
(2) Because Rule 703 allows an expert to use inadmissible evidence to form an opinion but does not allow that inadmissible evidence to be used for its truth, did not the Superior Court err in concluding that Rule 703 permitted the testimony in this case where the testifying expert’s opinion has
relevance and probative value only if the report he relied on is true?
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