Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Wells
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 15, 1995PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OLSZEWSKI, Judge:
On October 3, 1993, at around 10:00 a.m., the Philadelphia Police Department received a call that a woman had been abducted off of the streets of West Philadelphia and spirited away in a dark brown or burgundy Ford or Chevrolet. N.T. 2/2/94 at 9. Within two to four minutes of receiving the call, two police officers in a van observed a vehicle fitting the description approximately one-half mile from the site of the alleged abduction. Id. at 10-11. The police pulled over the vehicle. Inside was a male driver and a male passenger, but no woman. Id. at 12. Believing that if this…
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