Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brinkley
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 1, 1993No. 541PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POPOVICH, Judge:
We are asked to review the judgment of sentence (3 to 6 years imprisonment) for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance (cocaine) by the appellant, Sampson Brinkley. We affirm.
The first issue we address relates to a claimed error on the part of the court below in denying the appellant’s motion to suppress. In reviewing such a claim, we must consider only the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses and so much of the evidence for the defense as, fairly read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontradicted. Commonwealth v. Kichline, 468 Pa. 265,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Beck v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Texas v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State PenitentiarySupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by11 opinions
- In the Interest of B.C.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1996
- Commonwealth v. KlingensmithSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
- Commonwealth v. EvansSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
- Commonwealth v. RobbinsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1997
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