D'ALESSANDRO v. Pennsylvania State Police

*521Chief Justice CAPPY,

dissent.

1 respectfully dissent as I do not agree that the police officer’s report indicating that Appellee had hit “his live-in girlfriend” was a “fact” within the public record exception to the hearsay rule provided by the Judicial Code, 42 Pa.C.S. § 6101 et seq. Additionally, as the majority notes, the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence do not incorporate a “public records” exception to the hearsay rule.1 Therefore, the only “public records” exception is that contained in Sections 6103 and 6104 of the Judicial Code.

Section 6104(b) states that evidence shall be admissible…