Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Dowds
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 22, 2000PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAYLOR, Justice.
In this appeal, we must assess the validity of an airport encounter between Appellant and law enforcement officers.
On January 24, 1996, Trooper Anthony Ravotti of the Pennsylvania State Police and Officer Gary Petruzzi of the Allegheny County Police Department were assigned to narcotics interdiction at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Their duties consisted, inter alia, of observing passengers on incoming flights from “source cities,” such as Los Angeles and New York. While watching passengers disembark from a Los Angeles flight, Trooper Ravotti noticed Appellant,…
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