Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Superior Court 7/29/08 - COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. ANTONIO GRIFFIN

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. ANTONIO GRIFFIN

No. 1662 EDA 2007 2008 PA Super 170 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 7/29/2008
Appeal from the Order entered June 7, 2007 in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Criminal at No. CP-51-CR-0709121-2006
Before: FORD ELLIOTT, P.J., ALLEN and KELLY, JJ.
Opinion by: ALLEN, J.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appeals from the trial court’s order granting the suppression motion of Appellee, Antonio Griffin (“Defendant”). We reverse.

-----------------------------------------------------
Want 50 state & federal case law? - click here

The Commonwealth raises the following issue on appeal:
Did the lower court err in suppressing both the
crack cocaine found in plain view when police
stopped defendant’s truck and additional evidence
seized pursuant to subsequently-obtained search
warrants where the Commonwealth’s
uncontradicted evidence – including multiple,
corroborated reports from an identified informant –
clearly demonstrated reasonable suspicion and the
lower court’s suppression order resulted from its
use of the wrong legal standards, including its
failure to consider all of the Commonwealth’s
evidence?

No comments: