Commonwealth v. Whitlock

OPINION BY

WECHT, J.:

The Commonwealth challenges the trial court’s July 15, 2011 suppression order. That order precluded the introduction into evidence of five bricks of heroin retrieved from a five-gallon bucket located on the front porch of the residence of Jerrell Whitlock (“Appellee”). We affirm.

The trial court has provided the following account of the facts and allegations underlying its suppression ruling:

Pittsburgh Police officers, including Officer Fetty, Officer Rosato and Officer Butler were patrolling the Hazelwood area of the City of Pittsburgh [in plain clothes] in an unmarked…