Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Carroll
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 2, 1993No. 00748PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*3CIRILLO, Judge.
This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from a pre-trial order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County suppressing the introduction of 47 packets of narcotics at the trial of Richard Carroll.1 We reverse.
Carroll was arrested, without a warrant, on November 22, 1989, and charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
At 11:21 a.m. on November 22, two uniformed police officers, Joseph Milligan and John Reinecker, while on routine patrol in a marked police vehicle, saw two men standing on the sidewalk…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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- Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- United States v. MendenhallSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- California v. Hodari D.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MatosSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1996
- State v. CatlettWashington Supreme Court · 1997
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