Commonwealth v. Stanley

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

This case presents several issues: (1) whether appellant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when police (armed with an arrest warrant) entered a third-party’s apartment, arrested appellant, and seized his revolver; (2) whether appellant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when the police failed to announce their purpose prior to breaking into the apartment; (3) whether appellant violated 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 907(a) (possessing instruments of crime) by openly carrying a loaded revolver; (4) whether, despite appellant’s offer to stipulate that he committed a “crime of *331v…