Commonwealth v. Wood

¶ 1 Colleen Wood appeals the judgment of sentence imposed following her conviction of underage drinking. Ms. Wood contends that police stopped her illegally, without reasonable suspicion that she was engaged in criminal activity. The District Attorney for Philadelphia County asks this Court to conclude that it was reasonable for a Pennsylvania State Trooper, assigned as a liquor enforcement officer, to suspect that a seventeen-year old sitting in a bar was engaged in criminal activity where the only observation put forth by the Commonwealth to support such suspicion was that, from the…