Commonwealth v. Hook
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
BROSKY, Judge:
Appellant was convicted, without a jury, of one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.1 He argues that his conviction should be reversed because the cocaine taken from him was the fruit of an illegal arrest and should therefore have been suppressed. In the alternative, he contends that if we find that the cocaine was seized not pursuant to arrest, but rather during a “stop” we ought then to conclude that it was taken during a search that exceeded the permissible limits of such searches. He also challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. Because we…
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- Commonwealth v. BosurgiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
- Commonwealth v. LovetteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
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