In Re Private Criminal Complaint of Wilson

GANTMAN, J.:

¶ 1 This Court granted en banc review of the order entered in the Erie County Court of Common Pleas, which denied Appellant, John D. Wilson II’s petition for approval of his private criminal complaint. Appellant asks whether the trial court erred when it deferred to the decision of the District Attorney’s office to disapprove the complaint, although Appellant had presented evidence of a prima facie case. Appellant also asks whether the District Attorney’s office abused its discretion in disapproving his private criminal complaint for the policy reasons given. As prefatory matters,…