Commonwealth v. Holloway

Opinion

BARROW, J.

The subject of this appeal is a pre-trial order suppressing the admissibility of evidence of cocaine found in the defendant’s suitcase aboard a train. The trial court ruled that the defendant had not abandoned the suitcase at the time of the seizure, and that the police illegally detained the defendant. We affirm this ruling.

The investigation leading to the seizure began at approximately 9:30 on the morning of the seizure when a special agent of the Amtrak Police Drug Enforcement Unit in Washington, D.C. reviewed a manifest of a train scheduled to run from Philadelphia to…