Commonwealth v. Beals

WIEAND, Judge:

This is a Commonwealth appeal from an order which suppressed the remnants of recently harvested marijuana plants which had been seized, pursuant to warrant, from an open field in Somerset County. The order also suppressed observations made one day earlier by narcotics agents from a helicopter flying low over the cleared land in which marijuana plants were growing and observations of growing marijuana made two days earlier by narcotics agents who had entered the woodland surrounding the open field in which the marijuana was growing. 1 For reasons appearing in this opinion, we…