Commonwealth v. Hall

Justice, EAKIN,

dissenting.

The majority finds two “difficulties” with the condition imposed here: the first involves transferring child support factors into probationary factors, and the second suggests the award here is speculative to the point of potential arbitrariness. See Majority Op. at 1215-17. I respectfully dissent, as there is no “award of child support” here. Appellant has introduced the Straw Man of child support laws and procedures into the considerations of criminal sentencing, as if the former was the purpose of the order, thus shifting perception away from the actual…