Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Wright
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 23, 1999No. 64 W.D. Appeal Dkt. 1998PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAYLOR, Justice.
This case presents the issue of whether Section 2711(b) of the Crimes Code, which requires the seizure of weapons in certain cases involving domestic violence, authorized the warrantless search of Appellant’s home.
On September 21, 1995, at approximately 11:00 p.m., Appellant, Randolph W. Wright, Sr. (“Wright”), returned to the mobile home he shared with his wife and their nine-year-old son. After entering his son’s room, where he found his wife and son asleep in bed, Wright produced a nine-millimeter handgun, fired a shot over the bed, and forcibly removed his wife to…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Mincey v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WrightSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2008
- Commonwealth v. TaylorSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2001
- Commonwealth v. Davido, T., ApltSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
- Commonwealth v. CapleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2015
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