Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Morris
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 1, 1994No. 34 Eastern District Appeal Docket 1993PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MONTEMURO, Justice.
This is an appeal, by allowance, from a memorandum decision of the Superior Court which affirmed a judgment of sentence entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County. In bringing this appeal, appellant, Kevin Donald Morris, alleges the Superior Court erred in upholding the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion to suppress evidence seized from the passenger compartment of appellant’s vehicle in the course of a protective search for weapons. We now affirm the order of the Superior Court.
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