M.D. AIDpeaI Dkt.
69 MAP 2019
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
MIDDLE DISTRICT
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 202 MAL 2019
Petitioner
Petition for Allowance of Appeal from
the Order of the Superior Court
V.
BETH ANN MASON,
Respondent
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 1
0th
day of September, 2019, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal
is GRANTED, LIMITED TO the issues set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to the
remaining issue. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Whether a babysitter has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the
bedroom of a child she is caring for?
(2) Whether the sounds resulting from a child being forcibly thrown into a crib
and being beaten by [Mason] constitute oral communications" or evidence
derived therefrom" under the Pennsylvania wiretap statute?