Commonwealth v. Sodomsky
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
BOWES, J.:
¶ 1 The Commonwealth appeals from the trial court’s November 9, 2005 order suppressing evidence.1 After careful review, we reverse.
When reviewing a suppression order we follow a clearly defined standard of review and consider only the evidence from the defendant’s witnesses together with the evidence from the prosecution that, when read in the context of the entire record, remains uncontradicted. We are bound by the trial court’s findings of fact if those findings are supported by the record, but are not bound by its conclusions of law. Commonwealth v. Chemosky, 874 A.2d…
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