Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Santiago
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 10, 2003PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*719OPINION BY JOYCE, J.:
¶ 1 The Commonwealth appeals from the order entered September 14, 2001 by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County which granted Wilfredo Santiago’s motion to suppress and his motion in li-mine. We affirm in part and reverse in part. The relevant facts and procedural history have previously been summarized by this Court as follows.
On May 28, 1985, at or about 3:00 a.m., the body of Police Officer Thomas Trench was found in his patrol car at the corner of 17th and Spring Garden Streets in Philadelphia. He had been shot in the face and in the left side of the neck…
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- Kuhlmann v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by27 opinions
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