Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lagana
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 25, 1988No. 25 E.D. Appeal Docket 1987PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.
The issue presented in this appeal is the admissibility of evidence seized by a police officer without a warrant during an investigatory stop and frisk prompted by a police radio call which contained information received from an unidentified source.
The pertinent facts from the record are as follows. On May 11, 1981 at 7:30 p.m. Officer Gelovich of the Philadelphia Police Department received a police radio broadcast that there was a man with a gun at the corner of Ninth and Wharton Streets in Philadelphia. The man was described as a white male, twenty to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Commonwealth v. BosurgiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
- Commonwealth v. HicksSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1969
- Commonwealth v. CortezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
- Commonwealth v. HamlinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
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3Cited by57 opinions
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