Commonwealth v. Galendez

CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION BY

LAZARUS, J.:

I join in the majority’s decision regarding the validity of Galendez’s probation and parole condition which authorized random searches of his residence and was imposed two days after sentencing. The probationary condition is not only invalid because it was entered without notice to or in the presence of Galendez and his attorney two days following sentencing, but, as our full Court held in Commonwealth v. Alexander, 16 A.3d 1152 (Pa.Super.2011), such conditions are illegal when they are *1049not based upon reasonable suspicion. Moreover, with regard…