Commonwealth v. DeHart

¶ 1 This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an order granting Appellees’ suppression motion. The Commonwealth raises two questions for our consideration, which we restate as follows: when a police vehicle pulls alongside a vehicle which was already stopped of its own accord, is the ensuing questioning of the occupants a mere encounter or an investigative detention; does an investigative detention occur when a police officer gets out of his vehicle and approaches a vehicle, which was stopped of its own accord, to converse with the occupants? We affirm.

¶ 2 The facts relevant to our decision…