Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 15, 1991No. 59 M.D. Appeal Docket 1989PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.*
The matter presented to this Court is whether there was sufficient probable cause to search the automobile owned by appellant, Gloria Rodriguez, and if so, were the circumstances such that a search warrant was not needed.1
On November 15, 1985, police received information from two reliable informants that appellant and her husband would be coming into York, Pennsylvania, to sell cocaine. The police had been told that appellant and her husband could be driving any one of several vehicles, including a black Trans Am, a white Chevy, and two or three…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Commonwealth v. GraySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
- Commonwealth v. SullivanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Commonwealth v. WebsterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
- Commonwealth v. WagnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
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3Cited by120 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. EllisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
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