Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Foglia
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 21, 2009No. 2079 EDA 2007PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
BOWES, J.:
¶ 1 On appeal, Stephen Foglia challenges the constitutionality of a police interdiction that led to the discovery of his possession of an unlicensed firearm. We affirm.
¶ 2 On June 24, 2006, Appellant was arrested for carrying an unlicensed firearm and carrying a firearm on a public street in Philadelphia. Appellant subsequently filed a motion to suppress the firearm as resulting from an illegal police detention. A hearing was held on that motion on December 18, 2006, and Philadelphia Police Officer Cyprian Scott, a seventeen-year veteran of the police force assigned to the…
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