Commonwealth v. Lemanski
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
*337CIRILLO, President Judge:
Appellant, Richard Lemanski, appeals from a judgment of sentence entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Potter County, following his conviction of possession of a controlled substance and manufacture of marijuana. We reverse and remand.
In October of 1984, Trooper Dale Cogley of the Pennsylvania State Police received a tip from an informant that plants, suspected of being marijuana, were growing in appellant’s greenhouse. The informant was a private citizen and, according to Trooper Cogley’s affidavit, was “familiar” with marijuana identification. Based on this…
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