Commonwealth v. Wilmington

McEWEN, President Judge.

¶ 1 This Court granted the petition for reargument filed by the Commonwealth in this case to consider whether the Pennsylvania Constitution prohibits the random stopping of a Greyhound bus at a toll plaza on a rural interstate to permit police officers to conduct a “drug interdiction investigation” in the absence of reasonable suspicion or probable cause to believe that an *1162individual on the bus is transporting narcotics.

¶ 2 Our study, as well as our resolution of the competing concerns presented by this case — eradication of the deadly plague visited upon our society…