Commonwealth v. Busch
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
FORD ELLIOTT, Judge:
The sole issue presented in this appeal is whether the suppression court erred when it granted appellee’s motion to suppress. Finding an error of law, we reverse.
Initially, we note that when reviewing the Commonwealth’s appeal from the decision of the suppression court, ‘we must consider only the evidence of the ... [defendant’s] witnesses and so much of the evidence for the prosecution as read in the context of the record as a whole remains uncontradicted.’ “When the evidence supports the suppression court’s findings of fact, we may reverse only when the legal conclusions…
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