Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Smith
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 19, 2003PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice CASTILLE.
This case presents both state and federal search and seizure issues arising from a drug interdiction operation at a commercial bus station terminal. We affirm the order of the Superior Court below.
On November 22, 1996, Agent Ronald Paret of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and Trooper David Hodges of the Pennsylvania State Police performed a drug interdiction investigation at the King of Prussia bus terminal in the Valley Forge Shopping Center in Montgomery County. At approximately 11:20 a.m., a Greyhound bus en route from New York to Pittsburgh made a…
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- Stansbury v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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