Commonwealth v. Worthy

OPINION BY

FORD ELLIOTT, J.:

¶ 1 In this appeal, the Commonwealth challenges the October 19, 2004 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County granting Mark S. Worthy’s (“Worthy”) motion to suppress evidence obtained after his vehicle was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint roadblock.1 The trial court held that the checkpoint at issue failed to adhere to the Tarbert-Blouse criteria.2 We agree and affirm.

11 2 When we review the Commonwealth’s appeal from the decision of the suppression court, “[we] consider only the evidence from the defendant’s witnesses together with the evidence of the…