Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Whitmyer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 29, 1995PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an Order of the Superior Court which affirmed the suppression of all evidence obtained from the stop of a vehicle driven by Appellee, Jack A. Whitmyer. We granted allocatur to review the standard applied by the lower courts in addressing the legality of the automobile stop by police under the following facts.
On October 30, 1990, Trooper Thomas Kambic of the Pennsylvania State Police was traveling south on Interstate 81 in Dauphin County when he observed Appellee’s vehicle proceeding in the same direction. Appellee was behind…
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- Delaware v. ProuseSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Commonwealth v. SwangerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
- Commonwealth v. MurraySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
- Commonwealth v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
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