Commonwealth v. Snyder

OPINION

Justice TODD.

In this appeal we are asked to determine whether the lower courts erred in finding Appellees’ federal due process rights were violated, and thus suppressing evidence against them based on our decision in Commonwealth v. Deans, 530 Pa. 514, 610 A.2d 32 (1992), in light of. the United States Supreme Court’s subsequent pronouncement in Illinois v. Fisher, 540 U.S. 544, 124 S.Ct. 1200, 157 L.Ed.2d 1060 (2004). For the reasons which follow, we reverse.

Beginning in January 2001, Appellee Group Two Properties (“Group Two”) owned a dirt lot in Reading, Pennsylvania, which…