Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Norris
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 1, 1982No. 392PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
HUTCHINSON, Justice.
A jury convicted appellant of rape, statutory rape, kidnapping, corruption of a minor and possession of an instrument of crime in a related series of occurrences involving a twelve year old girl.
*312The Superior Court affirmed his judgments of sentence. We granted review on a petition questioning the presence of exigent circumstances to justify a warrantless arrest on forcible entry into defendant’s apartment and alleging reversible error in the refusal to suppress a knife in plain view and a gun found under a mattress in a search incident to the arrest.
Upon…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Chimel v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by122 opinions
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