Commonwealth v. Foy

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

We granted allocatur to consider as a question of first impression whether the trial court erred in admitting into evidence testimony that following the Appellant’s arrest, no further crimes of the type that the Appellant was accused of were reported. We find that the admission of such evidence was error; however, the error in the case sub judice was harmless.

Between February 2 and August 25, 1987, four elderly women in the Borough of Homestead, Pennsylvania, were sexually assaulted in the bedrooms of their homes. The unique pattern of these crimes indicated that the…