Commonwealth v. Pizarro

POPOVICH, J.:

The Commonwealth appeals from the order entered on September 17, 1997, by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, which granted Appellee Pizarro’s motion to suppress ten packets of phencyclidine, more commonly known as PCP. On appeal, the Commonwealth primarily contends that the suppression court erroneously applied the doctrine of forced abandonment to suppress contraband that had been voluntarily abandoned by appellee and then recovered by a police officer. The Commonwealth also contends that the suppression court miseharacterized a brief detention of appellee as an…