PISCANIO APPEAL


235 Pa.Super. 490 (1975)

Piscanio Appeal.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

September 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean L. Foote, for appellant.

Richard J. Shiroff, Assistant District Attorney, and Charles H. Spaziani, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before WATKINS, P.J., JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN DER VOORT, and SPAETH, JJ.


OPINION BY JACOBS, J., September 22, 1975:

Petitioner appeals to this Court seeking to reinstate his private criminal complaints which, after having been approved at first by an assistant district attorney, were finally disapproved by the district attorney of Northampton County. We hold that a district attorney, having the power to approve or disapprove a private criminal complaint in the first instance, is empowered...

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