Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Millner

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 28, 2005No. 35 EAP 2004PublishedCited by 111 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Justice CASTILLE.

This Court granted review to consider the Commonwealth’s claim that the lower courts improperly ordered the suppression of a firearm that police seized following a warrantless entry into a vehicle in which appellee had no reasonable expectation of privacy. Because we hold that the seizure of the firearm did not violate appellee’s constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment and/or Article I, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, we reverse the order of the Superior Court to the extent that it affirmed the suppression of the firearm in question.1

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2Cases cited30 opinions

  1. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Rakas v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Rawlings v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. United States v. SalvucciSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  5. Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999

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3Cited by111 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. BurtonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2009
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  5. Commonwealth v. RussoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2007

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