Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Martinez
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 23, 1991No. 3208 Philadelphia 1989PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Judge.
On this appeal, we are asked to decide whether a woman who walked quickly away from a group of people on a street corner after observing a nearby police vehicle could be either arrested or detained for a limited purpose, where the pursuing police officers observed a bulge in her front pocket prior to commanding her to stop. We are unable to find that the specific and articulable facts available to the arresting officers would have warranted any reasonable belief that criminal activity was afoot. We conclude that, since grounds for seizure of the defendant even for a limited…
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