Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. E.M.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 21, 1999PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*657 OPINION
NIGRO, Justice.
In this consolidated appeal, Appellants contend that the Superior Court improperly upheld the trial court’s denial of a motion to suppress physical evidence obtained pursuant to a stop and frisk. We agree and therefore, reverse.
Our standard of review in addressing a challenge to a trial court’s denial of a suppression motion is whether the factual findings are supported by the record and whether the legal conclusions drawn from those facts are correct. Commonwealth v. Cortez, 507 Pa. 529, 532, 491 A.2d 111, 112 (1985), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 950, 106 S.Ct. 349, 88…
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- Texas v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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