Commonwealth v. Wagstaff
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
POPOVICH, J.:
¶ 1 The Commonwealth appeals the order granting a motion to suppress filed by Appellee Waddell Wagstaff claiming the trial court erred in holding that the police did not wait a reasonable period of time before executing a search warrant. 1 We affirm.
¶2 In reviewing the grant of a motion to suppress, the standard of review is well-established; to-wit:
When the Commonwealth appeals from a suppression order, we follow a clearly defined standard of review and consider only the evidence from the defendant’s witnesses together with the evidence of the prosecution that, when…
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- Commonwealth v. StanleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
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