Commonwealth v. Altadonna

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• concluding that reliance on information from parolee-informant was reasonable, despite a lack of testimony regarding his reliability, because the parolee-informant would have placed himself at risk had he given false information
• holding parole officers were not acting as stalking horses for Bureau of Narcotics Investigation (“BNI”
• standing for proposition that absent clear and express waiver or legislative framework, proper parole/probation supervision still requires reasonable suspicion, before lawful search and seizure, to protect constitutional rights of supervisee and to prevent pretextual stops
• “The fact that [a]ppellant’s [actions] may have been consistent with innocent behavior does not, standing alone, make the detention and limited investigation illegal.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).