Commonwealth v. Fedorek

OPINION

Justice McCAFFERY.

In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether the Commonwealth must prove that an offender acted with intent to cause substantial “public” harm or serious “public” inconvenience in order to grade the offender’s disorderly conduct conviction as a misdemeanor of the third degree pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S. § 5503(b). Because we determine that 18 Pa.C.S. § 5503(b) requires the Commonwealth to prove in a third-degree misdemeanor disorderly conduct prosecution that the offender acted with intent to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, rather than to prove…