Commonwealth v. Newton
2007 PA Super 409, ___A.2d___
Decided: Dec 31, 2007
Evidence was not admissible under the plain view doctrine when the officer entered a motel room to seize viewed evidence rather than monitoring the room until a warrant could be obtained.
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Commonwealth v. Thompson
2007 PA Super 372, ___A.2d___
Decided: Dec 10, 2007
The Commonwealth failed to prove that contraband seized in a pat-down had the mass and contour that would make its criminal character immediately apparent. The Superior Court suppressed the evidence.
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Commonwealth v. West
937, ___A.2d___
Decided: Nov 28, 2007
Police properly seized a vehicle when they had reason to believe it would be used in the sale of drugs.
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Commonwealth v. Paul
2007 PA Super 134, ___A.2d___
Decided: May 15, 2007
The Superior Court reversed a lower court's reduction of a mandatory sentence, because the arresting officer had not engaged in sentencing entrapment.
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Commonwealth v. McAliley
2007 PA Super 55, ____A.2d____
Decided: March 5, 2007
The Superior Court upheld admissibility of the evidence because the officers had exigent circumstances to perform a warrantless search of a home.
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Commonwealth v. Steward
2007 PA Super 46, ____A.2d____
Decided: February 22, 2007
The Superior Court reversed the lower court’s suppression of evidence, obtained pursuant to a wiretap, because the affidavit for the wiretap was sufficient to obtain a wiretap and the Wiretap Act would not permit suppression of the evidence in this case.
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Commonwealth v. Wells
16 A.2d 1192
Decided: January 31, 2007
The Superior Court upheld a lower court’s denial of a suppression motion because the officers who arrested a drug dealer had probable cause to make the arrest.
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Commonwealth v. Dukeman
No. 888 MDA 2005
Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2/6/07)
Search Warrant, probable cause for was established by confidential informants and police surveillance.
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Commonwealth v. Yancoskie
2006 PA Super 367, ____ A.2d ____
Decided: December 14, 2006
The Superior Court held that a spouse may consent to a warrantless search of the married couple’s home when the other spouse is not at home. 
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Commonwealth v. McCall
2006 PA Super. 329, ____A.2d____
Decided: November 16, 2006
The Superior Court held that there was sufficient evidence to uphold the trial court’s conviction for criminal conspiracy and PWID when the suspect acted as a lookout during drug transactions and he was carrying a large amount of money in small denominations when arrested.  
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