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Commonwealth v. Au

Citations

  • 986 A.2d 864
  • 2009 Pa. Super. 231
  • 2009 Pa. Super. LEXIS 4480
  • 2009 WL 4545152

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  • “the arresting officer’s request for identification did not transform his encounter with [Au] into an unconstitutional investigatory detention”
  • “[T]he law clearly recognizes that when an officer approaches a citizen and talks to that citizen without any assertion of authority, then what has transpired is a mere encounter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Elliott, Musmanno, Melvin, Bender, Bowes, Panella, Donohue, Shogan, Allen

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