2000 Pa. Super. 9 - Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““A conclusion to the contrary, as urged by PennDOT, would expand a disfavored evidentiary privilege and more importantly, contravene clear limitations on the scope of section 3754 imposed by subsection (a). Every police report or investigation, regardless of its origin, would be subject to the full panoply of protections otherwise due only ‘in-depth accident investigations and safety studies’ conducted by ‘the [Department, in association with the Pennsylvania State Police.’ All accident reports submitted to PennDOT would become privileged documents merely because they came into the possession of PennDOT, without legislative scrutiny or any consideration of the utility or harm inherent in proscribing disclosure. Such a result is in clear derogation of the plain language of section 3754(a). We cannot, by judicial fiat, expand this statutory privilege where the legislature has itself not chosen to do so.” Hall, 744 A.2d at 1290 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crimmins v. PennDot