Commonwealth v. Lasko

OPINION BY

FREEDBERG, J.:

Travis James Lasko appeals, nunc pro tunc, from the judgment of sentence entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong County on August 5, 2008. We vacate the judgment of sentence and remand for a new trial. 1

On September 8, 2006, Appellant’s girlfriend and her son notified police that Appellant threatened them with a small handgun outside his residence in Leech-burg, Pennsylvania. The police obtained a search warrant for Appellant’s residence seeking the handgun. While searching the residence, the police observed a marijuana plant in plain view at the top of the…