Commonwealth v. Loughnane
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JUSTICE DONOHUE
We granted the petition for allowance of appeal ’ filed by Daniel F. Loughnane (“Loughnane”) to determine whether the Superior Court erred by holding that the federal automobile exception, adopted by this Court in Commonwealth v. Gary, 625 Pa. 183, 91 A.3d 102 (2014),1 permitted the seizure of Loughnane’s truck while it 'was parked in his residential driveway. Commonwealth v. Loughnane, 128 A.3d 806, 817 (Pa. Super. 2015). For the reasons that follow, we conclude that Gary does not operate to permit the warrantless seizure of a vehicle parked on a defendant’s residential…
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