Commonwealth v. Luv

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice.

Following a bench trial, appellant Daryl Luv was convicted of possession of cocaine and possession with intent to deliver.1 He was sentenced to five to ten years incarceration and fined thirty thousand dollars. The superior court affirmed without dissent. We granted allocatur to determine whether probable existed to stop and search Luv’s vehicle without a warrant.

In the course of an ongoing investigation, the Wilkes-Barre police department requested and obtained a search warrant *574for appellant’s residence. Probable cause for the warrant was based…