Commonwealth v. Arch

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that in order to enter a dwelling without a warrant to make an arrest, the police must have probable cause as well as an exception to the warrant requirement
• holding that in order to enter a dwelling without a warrant to make an arrest, the police must have probable cause as well as an exception to the warrant requirement
• “A police officer cannot reach such a conclusion based upon an ‘unparticularized suspicion’ or ‘hunch.’”
• mere fact that defendant turned around and walked back toward rear of motel after allegedly seeing police patrol car did not amount to display of suspicious behavior, constituting proper grounds for investigatory stop
• illegal stop tainted a subsequent search and if evidence was suppressed due to stop there was a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different
• “This standard is met ‘if the police officer observes unusual and suspicious conduct on the part of the individual seized which leads him reasonably to conclude that criminal activity may be afoot[.]’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).