Com. v. Brown, V. ( 2020 )

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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
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VANESSA BROWN :
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Appellant : No. 155 MDA 2019
Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered November 30, 2018
In the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County
Criminal Division at No(s): CP-22-CR-0000525-2015
BEFORE: PANELLA, P.J., STABILE, J., and MUSMANNO, J.
MEMORANDUM BY MUSMANNO, J.: FILED NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Vanessa Brown (“Brown”) appeals from the judgment of sentence
entered following her conviction of five counts of conflict of interest, one count
of bribery, and one count of statement of financial interests.1 We affirm.
In 2010, Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett (“Attorney General
Corbett”) launched an undercover sting operation to ferret out public
corruption in state government. To facilitate that investigation, the Attorney
General’s Office obtained the cooperation of Tyron Ali (“Ali”) by agreeing not
to prosecute him for fraud if he assisted with the investigation. Ali presented
himself to members of the Pennsylvania legislature as a lobbyist seeking to
advance legislation on behalf of his clients and willing to pay for it. Ali
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1See 65 Pa. C.S.A. § 1103(c), 18 Pa. C.S.A. § 4701(a)(1), and 65 Pa. C.S.A.
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captured several members of Philadelphia’s state House delegation on tape
accepting relatively modest cash payments in exchange for their votes on
legislation. The evidence from the investigation – specifically, the tape
recordings – resulted in the prosecution and conviction of these legislators.
This appeal involves one of the legislators who was ensnared in the undercover
sting operation.
Vanessa Lowry Brown (“Brown”) was a member of the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives. Like all elected officials, Brown needed to raise a
significant sum of money for her upcoming election to scare off potential
challengers. However, Brown struggled to raise the necessary funds. Fearing
a contested election, Brown approached Ali for help with meeting her
fundraising goal. Ali agreed to raise money for Brown’s reelection campaign,
but made clear that he expected Brown to promote his client’s interests in
Harrisburg. Brown responded by using her position as a legislator to assist
Ali.
Over the next several months, Ali provided Brown with multiple cash
payments to secure her vote on various pieces of legislation in the House. In
one instance, Ali asked Brown to vote “no” on legislation requiring voters to
show some form of identification at polling places. Brown voted against the
voter identification measure in the House. Shortly after the vote, Ali appeared
in Brown’s office and handed her an envelope containing $2,000 in cash.
Unbeknownst to Brown, Ali recorded the illegal transaction on tape.
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Despite evidence that Brown had accepted money in exchange for
favorable votes on legislation, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane
(“Attorney General Kane”) declined to charge Brown due to concerns about
the investigation.2 The Attorney General’s Office then referred the case to the
Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Thereafter, Philadelphia District
Attorney R. Seth Williams (“Williams”), in conjunction with Dauphin County
District Attorney Ed Marsico (“District Attorney Marsico”), impaneled a grand
jury to investigate the corruption allegations against Brown.
After hearing testimony from numerous witnesses, including Brown, and
examining the evidence, the grand jury returned a presentment
recommending criminal charges. The judge overseeing the investigating
grand jury then directed the appropriate jurisdiction, Dauphin County, to file
charges against Brown. The Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office filed a
Criminal Complaint charging Brown with the above-described crimes: five
counts of conflict of interest, one count of bribery, and one count of statement
of financial interests.
In the years that followed, a series of unexpected events upended and
delayed the corruption case against Brown. Those events centered primarily
on Williams pleading guilty to federal bribery charges. After Williams resigned
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2 Attorney General Kane succeeded Attorney General Corbett as attorney
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from office, First Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Martin (“Acting District
Attorney Martin”) became the acting district attorney by operation of law.
From there, Acting District Attorney Martin disclosed two conflicts of interest
in the case. The first conflict concerned her former law firm representing Ali
in negotiating a cooperation agreement with the Attorney General’s Office.
The second conflict Acting District Attorney Martin revealed was that her
former law firm represented Williams in connection with the federal grand jury
investigation that resulted in his guilty plea and resignation.
Brown filed a pre-trial Motion to disqualify the Philadelphia District
Attorney’s Office and the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office from
prosecuting the case. In her Motion, Brown asserted that there were disabling
conflicts of interest in the case. Specifically, Brown argued that the
prosecutors from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, whom District
Attorney Marsico appointed as special prosecutors in the case, reported to and
took direction from Acting District Attorney Martin. The trial court granted the
motion in part and denied it in part, disqualifying the special prosecutors from
the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, but not the Dauphin County District
Attorney’s Office. Brown filed an interlocutory appeal challenging the trial
court’s decision, and this Court quashed the appeal as premature.
The case proceeded to jury selection. There, the Commonwealth
exercised five peremptory strikes, each one directed against non-white jurors.
In particular, the Commonwealth excluded two black females from the jury.
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Brown, who is black, objected that the peremptory challenges were
discriminatory and illegal under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986).
The trial court determined that Brown established a prima facie case of
purposeful discrimination regarding one of the Black jurors. In response, the
Commonwealth proffered race-neutral explanations for striking the juror.
Ultimately, the trial court determined that the Commonwealth lacked
discriminatory intent in striking the Black juror and overruled Brown’s Batson
objection.
Following jury selection, the Commonwealth presented former Chief
Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina (“Fina”) as a trial witness. Fina, who
supervised the sting operation, testified on direct examination about the plea
bargain offered to Ali in return for his work as an undercover confidential
witness. Fina did not testify as to any personal observation of Brown, and he
did not testify as to any facts that, absent the testimony of Ali, were relevant
to Brown’s guilt or innocence. On cross-examination, Brown sought to
confront Fina with pornographic and racist emails that he had exchanged with
colleagues in the Attorney General’s Office. Brown argued that the emails,
which Fina sent and received while supervising the sting operation,
demonstrated Fina’s bias. The trial court disagreed and barred Brown from
introducing the emails on cross-examination.
After the evidentiary phase of trial, the jury was charged, deliberated,
and returned a guilty verdict on all charges. The trial court sentenced Brown
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to 6 to 23 months’ probation. Brown then filed a post-sentence Motion for
judgment of acquittal, which the trial court denied. This timely appealed
followed.
Brown presents the following issues for our review:
(1) Whether the Commonwealth denied … Brown equal protection
under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution[,] when it put her on trial before a jury from which
members of her race had been purposefully excluded?
(2) Whether the trial court committed reversible error by denying
… Brown her right under the Sixth Amendment to the United
States Constitution and Article 1, Section 9 of the Pennsylvania
Constitution to impeach … Fina’s credibility using his racist and
sexist emails?
(3) Whether, after finding that the prosecution suffered an actual
conflict of interest, the trial court violated … Brown’s constitutional
rights and committed a clear error of law by refusing dismissal of
the case and referral to the Office of the Attorney General?
Appellant’s Brief, at 5.
Brown first argues that the trial court erred in denying her Batson
challenge and allowing the Commonwealth to purposefully exclude members
of her race from the jury.
Because a Batson claim presents mixed questions of law and fact, our
standard of review is whether the trial court’s legal conclusions are correct
and whether its factual findings are clearly erroneous. See Commonwealth
v. Edwards, 177 A.3d 963, 970 (Pa. Super. 2018).
Under the Batson doctrine, a defendant must first make out a prima
facie case of discrimination by showing that the Commonwealth struck one or
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more prospective jurors on account of race.3 See id., at 971. If a prima facie
showing is made, then the burden shifts to the Commonwealth to advance a
race-neutral explanation for its strikes. See id. Finally, the trial court must
determine whether the defense has carried its burden of proving purposeful
discrimination. See id.Initially, we must determine whether Brown properly preserved her
Batson claim for appellate review. The Commonwealth argues that Brown
failed to create an appropriate record and therefore waived her Batson claim
on appeal.
Our Supreme Court has stated that a moving party must preserve a full
and complete record of the asserted Batson violation, as it would otherwise
be impossible to conduct meaningful appellate review without the record. See
Commonwealth v. Fletcher, 861 A.2d 898, 909 (Pa. 2004). This full and
complete record requires the moving party to identify the race of
venirepersons excluded by the Commonwealth, the race of prospective jurors
stricken by the defense, and the racial composition of the final jury. See id.,
at 910. Absent such a record, we cannot address the merits of the moving
party’s Batson claim. See Commonwealth v. Thompson, 106 A.3d 742,
752 (Pa. Super. 2014).
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3 Batson claims have expanded to include claims that jurors were excluded
on the basis of their sex. See J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127(1994). Brown’s challenge, however, is focused on the race of the excluded
jurors.
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Brown, who is Black, raised a Batson claim after the Commonwealth
had exercised its peremptory challenges on two Black female jurors. See N.T.
Jury Trial, 10/22/2018, at 31. A sidebar conference was requested and, at
the conference, Brown successfully moved the jury questionnaires into
evidence. See id. Brown also identified the races of the jurors she struck
during jury selection as well as those jurors that the Commonwealth had
excluded from the venire. See id., at 32.
However, despite her efforts to create a record of her Batson claim,
Brown fell short of creating a full and complete record for our review.
After filing her Notice of Appeal, Brown requested that the trial court
transmit the jury questionnaires to this Court as part of the certified record.
The trial court failed to transmit the exhibit, and Brown filed an application
under Pa.R.A.P. 1926(b)(1) to correct the deficiency.4 See Appellant’s
Emergency Application. In her Application, Brown sought relief in the form of
an order from this Court directing the trial court to transmit the jury
questionnaires as a supplemental record. See id., at 5. Brown alleged that
this Court’s intervention was necessary, since the exhibits had been retained
by the trial court and she had made multiple attempts to have the
questionnaires transmitted to this Court. See id., at 2-4. In fact, the trial
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4 Rule 1926(b)(1) provides that “[i]f anything material to a party is omitted
from the record by error, breakdown in the process of the court, or accident
or is misstated therein, the omission or misstatement may be corrected[.]”
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court entered an Order directing that the exhibits be provided to Brown and
the Commonwealth. See id., at 6. The court reporter responded that all
available exhibits had been forwarded to this Court. See id., at Exhibit F. A
motions panel of this Court denied the Application without prejudice, and
ordered Brown to seek relief in the trial court. See Order, 02/14/2020.
Brown, perhaps understandably, did not seek further relief in the trial
court. The jury questionnaires are therefore not in the record before us.
Given the unrebutted allegations in Brown’s emergency Application, as well as
a review of the transcripts of voir dire, we conclude that Brown has done
everything within her power to have the exhibits forwarded to this Court.
Their absence from the certified record constitutes a breakdown in the court’s
operation, and we will therefore review the issue based upon the uncontested
circumstances surrounding the claim.
Brown’s argument is focused on the Commonwealth’s strike of
venireperson No. 2, a Black female. According to the trial court, the
Commonwealth struck two of the three Black venirepersons, as well as the
only three other non-white venirepersons. See Trial Court Opinion,
10/14/2019, at 9-10. After Brown raised a Batson challenge, the trial court
found that she had established a prima facie case that the Commonwealth had
violated Batson in striking venirepersons No. 2 and No. 15, the two Black
females.
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The Commonwealth then presented race-neutral reasons for striking
those two women. As noted, Brown’s argument on appeal focuses exclusively
on No. 2. The Commonwealth stated that it had struck No. 2 for three reasons:
1) “that she was young in age, and, therefore, [believed that she] would be
less likely to appreciate the evidence that is going to be presented and be able
to follow and understand it[;]” 2) that “[s]he had a scowl on her face during
the Commonwealth’s voir dire, and she looked disinterested in the process,
giving us some concern that she would be following the law with the evidence
and taking the case seriously[;] and 3) that “she is a behavioral scientist or
behavioral specialist, which my concern on that would be she would be
overanalyzing the testimony of witnesses and the behavior of every witness
who comes in.” N.T., Jury Trial, 10/22/2018, at 32-33.
After hearing the Commonwealth’s proffered reasons, the court stated
that in “reviewing [No. 2] being a behavioral specialist and noting the
demeanor as purported by the Commonwealth, we accept that as a reasonable
basis to strike.” Id., at 33. Brown objected, and argued that the
Commonwealth’s reasons for striking No. 2 were pretextual. After hearing
Brown’s argument, the court stated, “I keep to my position.” See id., at 36.
On appeal, Brown argues the trial court erred in accepting the
Commonwealth’s proffered reasons as non-pretextual. The trial court’s
ultimate resolution of whether the Commonwealth had a discriminatory intent
in exercising a peremptory strike is a finding of fact based upon the trial court’s
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superior ability to assess the credibility of the assertions. See
Commonwealth v. Williams, 980 A.2d 510, 531 (Pa. 2009). We therefore
can only overturn it if the finding is clearly erroneous. See id.As Brown notes, the Commonwealth’s first and third reasons are
arguably contradictory: either No. 2 was too young to pay attention to the
trial, or she, by dint of her education and occupation, was too likely to
overanalyze the testimony of the witnesses. Brown further argues that the
Commonwealth’s second and third reasons are similarly contradictory: if No.
2 appeared “disinterested in the process,” Id., at 33, then it is hard to
understand why the Commonwealth would believe that she was likely to
“overanalyz[e] the testimony of witnesses and the behavior of every witness
who comes in.” Id.
The trial court, in its Opinion, opines that under all the circumstances,
it found the Commonwealth’s proffered reasons to be credible, even though it
did not independently observe No. 2’s demeanor during voir dire. The court
further noted that the prosecutor’s “demeanor and history in our courtroom
have consistently reflected fair-mindedness and a reputation for not engaging
in racial violations of this kind.” Trial Court Opinion, 10/14/2019, at 15. While
Brown certainly raises several reasons to possibly disbelieve the
Commonwealth’s proffered reasons, we are not making this determination in
the first instance. Rather, as noted, we can only reverse the trial court’s
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determination if it is clearly erroneous. As we do not conclude that Brown’s
arguments establish that the trial court clearly erred, Brown is due no relief.
Brown highlights the trial court’s discussion of the history and reputation
of the prosecutor and contends that she did not have the burden to establish
a history of unlawful discrimination, merely that juror No. 2 was unlawfully
stricken. Brown’s argument misses an important qualification. She was
certainly not required to establish a history of discrimination in making out a
prima facie case. See Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 S.Ct. 2228, 2241 (2019).
But the trial court must consider “all the relevant facts and circumstances,”
including the history and demeanor of the prosecutor who exercised the
challenge. See id., at 2243-44
Here, the court did not require Brown to establish a history of
discrimination to make out a prima facie case. Nor did it exclusively rely on
the prosecutor’s history and reputation. Instead, the court considered all the
circumstances and concluded that the prosecutor was credible in his
assertions. The court did not commit a clear error, and we therefore affirm
its ruling on this issue.
Next, Brown argues that the trial court deprived her of the right to
impeach Fina’s credibility with racist and pornographic emails, to establish
Fina’s bias against her. In barring her from doing so, Brown asserts the trial
court committed errors of law and ultimately abused its discretion.
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The admission of evidence is within the sound discretion of the trial court
and will be reversed only upon an abuse of that discretion. See
Commonwealth v. Woodard, 129 A.3d 480, 494 (Pa. 2015). An abuse of
discretion is not merely an error of judgment, but a misapplication of the law
or an unreasonable exercise of judgment. See Commonwealth v. Sitler,
144 A.3d 156, 163 (Pa. Super. 2016) (en banc).
The threshold inquiry for the admission of evidence is whether the
evidence is relevant. See Commonwealth v. Cook, 952 A.2d 594, 612 (Pa.
2008). Evidence is relevant if it has any tendency to make a fact of
consequence more or less probable than it would be without the evidence.
See Pa.R.E. 401. However, even if evidence is relevant, it may be excluded
if its probative value is outweighed by a danger of one or more of the
following: unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue
delay, wasting time, or needlessly presenting cumulative evidence. See
Pa.R.E. 403; see also Commonwealth v. Williams, 91 A.3d 240, 242 (Pa.
Super. 2014).
The trial court concluded that Fina’s racist and pornographic emails were
irrelevant and, therefore, inadmissible. See Trial Court Opinion, 10/14/19, at
16-17. In its Opinion, the court found that “[a]ny arguable relevance would
clearly be outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusing the issues,
misleading the jury, undue delay, and waste of time.” Id. The court also
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explained that sending or receiving inappropriate, sexually and racially
offensive emails had no bearing on credibility. See id., at 17.
In contrast, Brown argues that Fina’s pornographic and racist emails
tended to show bias and were relevant to impeach Fina’s credibility on cross-
examination. To support her argument, Brown relies on a series of cases
recognizing that evidence of bias is almost always relevant to impeach a
witness’s credibility. See Appellant’s Brief, at 61-63 (citing Commonwealth
v. Abu-Jamal, 555 A.2d 846, 852-53 (Pa. 1989), Commonwealth v.
Rouse, 782 A.2d 1041, 1045 (Pa. Super. 2001), and Commonwealth v.
Butler, 601 A.2d 268, 271 (Pa. 1991)). Therefore, under the weight of
Pennsylvania authority, Brown asserts that the trial court should have allowed
her to introduce evidence of Fina’s bias on cross-examination.
“[A] witness may be cross-examined on any matter tending to show the
interest or bias of that witness.” Commonwealth v. Nolen, 634 A.2d 192,
195 (Pa. 1993); see also Binder on Pennsylvania Evidence § 6.07 at 316.
However, a trial court has discretion to impose reasonable limits on defense
counsel’s inquiry into the potential bias of a prosecution witness. See
Commonwealth v. Rosser, 135 A.3d 1077, 1088 (Pa. Super. 2016) (en
banc). “Generally speaking, the Confrontation Clause guarantees an
opportunity for effective cross-examination, not cross-examination that is
effective in whatever way, and to whatever extent, the defense might wish.”
Id. (citation omitted). The trial court’s exercise of its discretion will only be
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reversed if the court clearly abused its discretion or committed an error of law.
See id., at 1087.
In exercising its discretion, the trial court may limit the scope of defense
counsel’s cross-examination based on concerns that the matter is collateral,
would likely confuse or mislead the jury, or would waste time. See
Commonwealth v. Largaespada, 184 A.3d 1002, 1009 (Pa. Super. 2018).
“[A] collateral matter is one which has no relationship to the case at trial.”
Commonwealth v. Guilford, 861 A.2d 365, 369 (Pa. Super. 2004).
Here, the trial court’s decision to limit the scope of cross-examination,
and prohibit Brown from using the pornographic and racist emails to explore
Fina’s potential bias, was not an abuse of discretion. The emails may have
been probative of Fina’s bias and therefore his credibility. However, Fina’s
direct testimony was not directly relevant to the question of Brown’s guilt or
innocence. Instead, the Commonwealth presented Fina to rehabilitate Ali’s
credibility, after Brown had attacked it on cross-examination. To that end,
Fina testified at length regarding Ali’s cooperation with the Attorney General’s
Office as a confidential witness and the factors that were considered when a
plea bargain was offered to Ali. See N.T., Jury Trial, 10/26/2018, at 68-81.
Brown correctly notes that “a criminal defendant has a right to cross[-]
examine any adverse witness,” and that an adverse witness “may be
impeached by evidence which tends to show … that the witness may possess
a bias which colors his testimony[.]” Butler, 601 A.2d at 268. But Brown
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was not prevented from cross-examining Fina. Nor was she prohibited from
asking him about any bias he might harbor. She was merely prohibited from
introducing the emails as a means of establishing Fina’s bias. And the emails
were clearly a collateral matter, as they were not directly relevant to any issue
in dispute at Brown’s trial.
Because the emails themselves did not tend to prove or disprove
Brown’s guilt, nor affect the credibility of a witness that testified to facts
directly related to the issue of Brown’s guilt, they were excludable as collateral
evidence. See Guilford, 861 A.2d at 369-370 (holding that evidence of
witness’s intoxication at preliminary hearing was excludable on cross-
examination because it could not establish the witness had a motive to
fabricate his trial testimony). Further, while we cannot agree with the trial
court’s conclusion that the e-mails are incapable of establishing bias, we find
no error in the court’s conclusion that questioning Fina on the emails raised
the specter of confusing the issues before the jury and opening a rabbit hole
of wasteful back and forth over the content of the emails and how much Fina
actively participated in creating and circulating the emails. Therefore, the trial
court did not abuse its discretion in limiting the scope of cross-examination.5
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5 While the basis for our decision is slightly different than the basis explicitly
set forth by the trial court, we note that we may affirm on any basis supported
by the record. See Commonwealth v. Singletary, 803 A.2d 769, 772 (Pa.
Super. 2002).
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In her final issue, Brown argues that the trial court erred in denying her
Motion to disqualify the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office from
prosecuting the case.
We review a trial court’s decisions on conflict of interest and
disqualification for an abuse of discretion. See Commonwealth v. Sims,
799 A.2d 853, 856 (Pa. Super. 2002). “[A] prosecution is barred when an
actual conflict of interest affecting the prosecutor exists in the case[.]”
Commonwealth v. Eskridge, 604 A.2d 700, 702 (Pa. 1992). However, mere
allegations of a conflict of interest are insufficient to warrant replacement of a
district attorney. See Commonwealth v. Mulholland, 702 A.2d 1027, 1037
(Pa. 1997).
As noted above, the trial court disqualified the special prosecutors
because then-Acting Philadelphia District Attorney Martin had conflicts of
interest in the case. From that point on, the Dauphin County District
Attorney’s Office prosecuted the case against Brown, including the present
appeal, without the assistance of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.
Nonetheless, Brown maintains that District Attorney Marsico became hobbled
with an actual conflict of interest simply by participating with the Philadelphia
District Attorney’s Office in the case. On that basis, Brown argues that the
trial court should have disqualified the Dauphin County District Attorney’s
Office and referred the matter to the Attorney General’s Office.
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This Court, sitting en banc, addressed a similar conflict of interest issue
in Commonwealth v. Miller, 422 A.2d 525 (Pa. Super. 1980) (en banc). In
Miller, the appellant sought the disqualification of the entire district attorney’s
office, because the district attorney previously had served as the county’s chief
public defender and had represented the appellant’s co-defendant in that
capacity. The Commonwealth, on the other hand, asserted that
disqualification of the entire district attorney’s office was unnecessary because
the district attorney had recused himself from all matters involving the public
defender’s office. Even so, the appellant maintained that the continued
prosecution of the case by the district attorney’s staff created the appearance
of impropriety. See id., at 526-527.
The Miller Court rejected the appellant’s “appearance of impropriety”
argument and held that individual disqualification, as opposed to
disqualification of an entire district attorney’s office, is sufficient when an
actual conflict of interest exists. See id., at 529. As such, the Miller Court
concluded that it was unnecessary to disqualify the entire district attorney’s
office, because the district attorney had abided by his self-imposed recusal.
See id.Like the Miller Court, we find that disqualification of the special
prosecutors, as opposed to disqualification of the entire Dauphin County
District Attorney’s Office, was appropriate in this matter. See Miller, 422
A.2d at 529. The mere fact that the special prosecutors participated in some
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aspects of the case does not compel disqualification of the entire district
attorney’s office. Furthermore, Brown presents no argument or legal authority
explaining how District Attorney Marsico retained a conflict of interest after
the trial court disqualified the special prosecutors. Therefore, the trial court
did not abuse its discretion when it refused to disqualify the entire Dauphin
County District Attorney’s Office from the case.
Judgment of sentence affirmed.
Judgment Entered.
Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq.
Prothonotary
Date: 11/30/2020
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