Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Sodomsky

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 5, 2007PublishedCited by 24 opinions

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…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. Horton v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  4. Oliver v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Commonwealth v. DeJohnSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. KaneSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
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  4. Commonwealth v. Shaffer, J., Aplt.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
  5. Tagouma v. Investigative Consultant Services, Inc.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2010

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