Commonwealth v. Matos

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided 1996-02-26

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MAJORITY OPINION CAPPY, Justice. 1 The three instant appeals were consolidated for oral argument and will be disposed of together in this opinion since they raise a single identical issue; namely, whether contraband discarded by a person fleeing a police officer are the fruits of an illegal “seizure” where the officer possessed neither “probable cause” to arrest the in…

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