Commonwealth v. Richter

¶ 1 This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an order entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County granting Appellee Karen Lee Richter’s motion to suppress the physical evidence seized by the police. On appeal, the Commonwealth alleges that the warrantless, unannounced entry of the police into Ap-pellee Richter’s residence was warranted by exigent circumstances and the “knock and announce” rule was not violated.1 We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

Our scope of review when considering the Commonwealth’s appeal of a suppression order is narrow:

[W]e must consider only the…