Commonwealth v. Schmidt

CONCURRING OPINION BY

GANTMAN, P.J.:

After careful review of the relevant law, I respectfully concur in the result reached in the majority disposition, ie., to affirm the judgment of sentence. I write separately to emphasize that the degree of the appellate court’s independent review of the certified record in Anders cases remains in dispute and subject to disagreement for lack of definition. In my opinion, the procedure outlined in Commonwealth v. Flowers, 113 A.3d 1246 (Pa.Super. 2015) was not essential to its holding and therefore fails to control appellate review in Anders cases.

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