Commonwealth v. Priddy

SCOTT, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellee, Lloyd A. Priddy, sought to suppress the fruits of a search of his person by a police officer during the course of a stop of his vehicle. In denying the motion, the trial court made findings — which Appellee argues were contained only in the uniform citation issued by the officer — that the stop, and thus the search, was justified *503pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). The citation had been filed in the court record and was used and referred to in the hearing by the parties and the court, but it was never formally…