In the Interest of L.J.

*1076 OPINION

Justice BAER.

We granted allocatur in this case to decide “whether and when a reviewing court considering a challenge to a pretrial ruling, whether in a post-verdict or appellate context, may look beyond the record of evidence presented at the suppression hearing.” In the Interest of: L.J., 606 Pa. 46, 994 A.2d 1080 (2010). The Superior Court relied on a footnote from this Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Chacko, 500 Pa. 571, 459 A.2d 811 (1983), for the proposition that “it is appropriate to consider all of the testimony, not just the testimony presented at the suppression hearing,…