Legal Opinion

In the Interest of Jermaine

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 22, 1990No. 1493PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WIEAND, Judge:

Where a police officer, without show of force, approaches a juvenile in a public railroad station and asks her questions and she, without coercion, consents to a search of the bag which she is carrying, are the drugs found in her bag subject to suppression as the fruits of unlawful police conduct? The trial court held that the juvenile, because of her youth, “was not of an age where consent was freely given” and suppressed the drugs found in her bag. After careful review, we reverse.

In reviewing an appeal taken by the Commonwealth from an order suppressing evidence,

we must…

2Cases cited33 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  3. Florida v. RoyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  4. United States v. MendenhallSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  5. Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979

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3Cited by33 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. BoswellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
  2. Commonwealth v. WrightSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1996
  3. Commonwealth v. MartinSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1997
  4. Commonwealth v. VasquezSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1997
  5. Commonwealth v. HudsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2010

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