Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Landamus

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 28, 1984No. 1350PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DEL SOLE, Judge:

This appeal was taken from the Judgment of Sentence from a burglary conviction. The issue raised is whether physical evidence found from the search of Appellant’s vehicle was properly admitted into trial.

The crucial facts are that on January 2, 1981, the Stella residence in Plains Township was burglarized and several pieces of jewelry were taken. Two weeks later on January 16, 1981, Dominick Augustine, a neighbor of the Stella’s, accompanied police to Wilkes-Barre where he identified Appellant’s automobile as being the same as the one he had seen near the Stella home on the…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  2. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  4. Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  5. Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. SteinmetzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
  2. Commonwealth v. RodriguezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988

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