Commonwealth v. Shaffer, J., Aplt.

JUSTICE WECHT, Concurring and Dissenting

I concur only in the result that today's learned Majority reaches. The Majority chooses to invoke our discretionary authority to affirm an order upon any basis, and does so on the basis of the "private search" doctrine.1 I would address instead the question of abandonment of privacy, which is the issue upon which this Court granted allocatur . As applied to these facts, this abandonment issue happens to resolve here in the Commonwealth's favor. Accordingly, I would affirm the judgment of sentence, and I join the Majority only insofar as it reaches the…