Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Cohen

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 19, 1992No. 3 E.D. Appeal Docket 1990PublishedCited by 59 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*555OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

In this eighteen-year-old murder case, the Commonwealth appealed from the trial court’s grant of the defendant’s motion in limine which precluded the admission of specified evidence during his retrial. Superior Court held that the orders were pretrial “suppression orders” which practically terminated or substantially handicapped the prosecution, appealable pursuant to Commonwealth v. Dugger, 506 Pa. 587, 486 A.2d 382 (1985), and reversed the orders as erroneous limitations on the Commonwealth’s use of its evidence. 391 Pa.Super.…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  2. Ashe v. SwensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Dunn v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
  4. Standefer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  5. Commonwealth v. BosurgiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963

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3Cited by59 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. AlbrechtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
  2. Commonwealth v. CousarSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2007
  3. Commonwealth v. BoczkowskiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2004
  4. Commonwealth v. KingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
  5. Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999

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