Commonwealth v. Goldman

HOFFMAN, Judge:

This is an appeal from judgment of sentence for receiving stolen property.1 Appellant asserts that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence an inculpatory declaration against *88interest.2 For the reasons that follow, we reverse judgment of sentence and remand the case for a new trial.

The relevant facts are as follows. On January 15, 1991, appellant purchased an IBM PS2 computer from two individuals who brought the computer to appellant’s house at 11:30 p.m. The computer had been stolen earlier that evening from the place of employment of one of the individuals. The next…