Commonwealth v. Asamoah

OPINION BY

HUDOCK, J.

¶ 1 This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence entered after a judge, sitting without a jury, found Appellant guilty, at a trial de novo, of the offense of “loitering” in contravention of an ordinance of the City of York, Pennsylvania. 1 We reverse.

¶2 The trial court has explained the facts underlying this appeal in the following apt manner:

Officer Scott Edward Nadzom of the York City Police Department observed [Appellant] and another individual standing on the sidewalk in a “high drug area” in York City, [Appellant] holding currency in his right hand, the other…