Commonwealth v. Fioretti

MONTEMURO, Judge:

In these consolidated appeals, the Commonwealth challenges various orders of the Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas granting appellees’ motions to suppress all evidence obtained after their vehicles were stopped at various “sobriety checkpoint” roadblocks. The court of common pleas relied on this Court’s opinion in Commonwealth v. Tarbert, 348 Pa.Super. 306, 502 A.2d 221 (1985), 1 and concluded that the sobriety checkpoints were per se unconstitutional. The court, therefore, suppressed all evidence obtained as a result of the stops made at the checkpoints. The roadblocks…