Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Monarch
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 27, 1986No. 17 W.D. Appeal Docket, 1985PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FLAHERTY, Justice.
The issue in this case, which concerns the warrantless, nighttime arrest of appellant in his home, is whether a post-verdict motions court has the power to review its own suppression ruling when no new evidence on this question has been introduced at trial which could not have been produced at the suppression hearing. This issue arises from the apparent conflict between our rules providing for finality of suppression rulings and Pa.R.Crim.P. 1123, requiring all assignments of error to be addressed in the first instance by the post-verdict motions court.
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2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. HarmonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1976
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3Cited by51 opinions
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