Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lewis
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 12, 1981No. 2050PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POPOVICH, Judge:
This is an appeal from the lower court’s Order denying appellant’s petition, filed pursuant to Pa.R.Crim.P. 324, 1 for the return of property alleged to be in the possession of the police as a result of a seizure under an invalid search warrant. We do not reach the merits of the issue raised. The Order appealed from is interlocutory, and the appeal, therefore, must be quashed.
A recital of the procedural history of the case is pertinent to an understanding of the ruling made. On June 30, 1980, Trooper Thomas Baggott secured a warrant to search appellant’s place of business…
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- Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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