Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Richards

Winchester County Circuit Court

Decided January 13, 1987No. Case No. (Criminal) 86-CR-328Published

1Opinion of the Court

By JUDGE HENRY H. WHITING

The Court has before it a suppression motion seeking to exclude the introduction of evidence of drugs seized from the defendant by the police after he left the Winches* ter labor camp and was arrested for trespassing therein.

The evidence showed that there were a number pf no trespassing signs to unauthorized personnel in the camp visible to the defendant when he entered the camp, stayed a short time, and, as he was leaving, one of the police officers acting as a stakeout to detain and arrest trespassers in the labor camp called other police officers on the radio to…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  3. Adams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. Sibron v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. Ybarra v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1980

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