Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Gibson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 8, 1994No. 8, 9 and 10PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MONTEMURO, Senior Justice.
Appellants appeal from an order of the Superior Court affirming the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County.
The sole question presented for our review is whether the police may make a warrantless entry into an apartment in the absence of any belief that illegal activity is being conducted, and, on the basis of information obtained thereafter, issue a citation for the summary offense of underage drinking.
The appellants are three students from East Stroudsburg University who were convicted in a non-jury trial for underage drinking. The…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Welsh v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Berger v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by87 opinions
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