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?