Commonwealth v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WIEAND, Judge:
Where the Commonwealth, in order to protect the life of an informant, refuses to disclose publicly the informant’s identity or the identity of prior cases in which he cooperated with the police, does a suppression court properly strike the search warrant affidavit reciting probable cause provided by the informant and suppress the fruits of an armed robbery found in the accused’s residence? We conclude that the evidence in this case was improperly suppressed. Therefore, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.
The relevant facts are not in dispute. On April 18, 1982,…
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2Cases cited47 opinions
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- Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State PenitentiarySupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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