Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Peters

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 7, 1994No. 798PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TAMILIA, Judge:

The Commonwealth takes this appeal from the Order of October 9, 1992, suppressing certain evidence. We find the suppression court abused its discretion in this matter and, thus, we reverse its ruling. 1

Initially, we note that when reviewing the Commonwealth’s appeal from the decision of a 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.” Commonwealth v. DeWitt, 530 Pa. 299, 302, 608 A.2d 1030, 1031 (1992); Commonwealth v.…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. United States v. MendenhallSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  5. Commonwealth v. DeWittSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1992

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. DiStefanoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2001
  2. Commonwealth v. LevanduskiSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2006
  3. Commonwealth v. CauleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2010
  4. Commonwealth v. TurnerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2001
  5. Commonwealth v. BuschSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1998

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