Can a Canine Officer Extend a Traffic Stop to Call for Back Up so he can Deploy his Canine for a Sniff?
Officers may seek assistance from other officers during a traffic stop so long [...]
Can a Person Leave Bags of Clipping of Opposing Political Views Near a Mailbox … Or … Is that Littering?
Mr. Dolcini’s delivery of political and other literature to his neighbors was p [...]
Can a Law Enforcement Officer Search a Locked Box if Probable Cause is Established that the Box Contains Narcotics?
[W]e conclude that based on the totality of the circumstances, Officer Simmons [...]
Can a Search ‘Incident to’ Arrest Occur PRIOR to the Arrest?
Where the police officer has probable cause to arrest independent of the items [...]
Can a Passenger with Marijuana Shake on His Shirt Constructively Possess Sixty-Three Grams of Heroin in the Trunk?
[T]his Court concludes that there is sufficient evidence upon which a jury coul [...]
Is it a Fourth Amendment Violation to Look into an Open Car Window?
[W]e conclude that Trooper Knowles lawfully observed the ammunition cartridge a [...]
Can the Omission of a Firearm on an Impound Sheet Rise the Level of a Fourth Amendment Violation?
The inventory search conducted in this case was not unreasonable within the mea [...]
Is Mental Illness an Absolute Bar to a Homicide Suspect Waiving his Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Rights?
Mr. Lawson has not shown the police involuntarily induced his Miranda waiver or [...]
Is Officer Safety an Element to Remove a Driver from a Lawfully Stopped Vehicle?
Mr. Holler’s contention that “Pennsylvania v. Mimms does not apply” is, therefo [...]
Did Vacuum Sealed Packages of Marijuana along with Forty-Two empty Wax Baggies and a Digital Scale Rise to the Level of Trafficking in Marijuana? … Or were the forty-two wax baggies for condiments?
[W]e conclude that sufficient evidence was presented to support a conviction fo [...]