Commonwealth v. Jones

RUFE, J.,

This case involves an appeal by the Commonwealth in the above captioned matter following a suppression hearing on August 22, 1991. The basis of the Commonwealth’s appeal is that the suppression order substantially handicaps the prosecution of the Commonwealth’s case.

On February 7, 1991, Detective Robert Potts from the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office received a telephone call from an informant (hereinafter “informant 1”) housed at the Bucks County Correctional *352Facility. The inmate informed him that on two prior occasions within the preceding two months, another inmate,…