Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Edney

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided August 26, 1983No. 1116PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HESTER, Judge:

On August 23, 1979, Officers Dizio, Fellino, Robinson and La Bou of the Philadelphia Police Department were assigned to a special plain-clothes detail on City Line Avenue in the City of Philadelphia. While they were operating an unmarked vehicle in a westerly direction on City Line Avenue, they observed appellant, Leroy Edney, and his co-defendant, Larnell Woods, standing near the entrance of the Acme Supermarket at the intersection of 76th Street and City Line Avenue. Both men glanced furtively and intermittently at each other, inside the store and to the store’s adjacent…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  2. Commonwealth v. GoosbySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
  3. Commonwealth v. MartinolichSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
  4. Commonwealth v. SorrellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  5. Commonwealth v. GarciaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978

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3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation AuthoritySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  2. Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation AuthoritySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  3. Commonwealth v. OrlowskiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  4. Commonwealth v. StinnettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
  5. Commonwealth v. CherpesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987

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