Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Gommer
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 5, 1995No. 1836PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIEAND, Judge:
Robert Mark Gommer was arrested and subsequently bound over for court on charges of driving while under the influence of alcohol, 1 moving from one traffic lane to another without giving an appropriate signal, 2 careless driving 3 and reckless driving. 4 Gommer filed a motion to suppress evidence on grounds that he had been illegally arrested by a member of the Pennsylvania State Police, who was off duty and out of uniform at the time of the purported arrest, and, therefore, without legal authority to make an arrest. The trial court agreed and ordered all evidence obtained as a…
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