Commonwealth v. Dial

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where the defendant’s arrest for malicious loitering was invalid, the evidence seized incident to such arrest must be suppressed
• constructive refusal based on sound of running within residence but no attempt made to answer door
• “when [officers] heard the sounds of running and the door was not opened, they were warranted in thinking that they were refused admittance and that an effort was underway to destroy evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).