Commonwealth v. Foster

By Judge David W. Lannetti

Today the Court rules on the motion filed by Defendant William Foster to suppress evidence resulting from a warrantless search and seizure where a police officer, while outside of an apartment unit, grabbed Foster’s hand as it protruded from a window and subsequently moved the window blinds to peer inside the apartment unit to view Foster. The two issues before the Court are (1) whether the officer possessed probable cause to support obtaining a search warrant and (2) whether exigent circumstances existed for the officer to conduct a warrantless search and seizure.…