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COM. v. LIVELY

530 Pa. 464 (1992)

610 A.2d 7

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Kevin LIVELY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 18, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Goldberger, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Gaele McLaughlin Barthold, Deputy Dist. Atty., Ronald Eisenberg, Chief, Appeals Div., George Leone, Philadelphia, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS and CAPPY, JJ.

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

We granted allocatur to consider limitations on the rule we set forth in Commonwealth v. Brady, 510 Pa. 123, 507 A.2d 66 (1986), permitting the admission, as substantive evidence, of prior inconsistent statements by a non-party witness.1 We now hold that such a statement shall be used as substantive evidence only when it was given...

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