A favorable cases for the defense this year is in the area of warrantless home searches in Commonwealth v. Arnold, 2007 PA Super 248, 932 A.2d 143 (Pa. Super. 2007). In Arnold, the police responded to a noise complaint from residents of the lower level of an apartment building. When the police were finished speaking […]
Archives for November 2007
Does the automatic companion rule exist in Pennsylvania?
In the recent case of Commonwealth v. Powell, 2007 Pa. Super. 298 (Oct. 9, 2007), a three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania consisting of Lally-Green, Klien and Bender, JJ., with the Opinion written by Judge Klein, held that the police had enough reasonable suspicion to conduct a pat down search of a sleeping […]