Commonwealth v. Duffy

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• holding that the Commonwealth failed to prove Duffy constructively possessed a gun and contraband found in a car that was not his, and in which he was just a passenger, where there was no evidence establishing Duffy knew about the gun and contraband
• identifying date of charged criminal activity as October 19, 1972 – 48 days before the modern Crimes Code was enacted
• gun recovered “far underneath passenger’s side of front seat” during consent search of vehicle; evidence failed to demonstrate appellant/passenger “knew of presence of contraband” and Commonwealth did not object to granting appellant relief
• Commonwealth failed to prove that defendant knew of the presence of apistol underneath the passenger's side of the seat, amask and gloves in the glove compartment, and burglary tools in the rear of the car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Boatwright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-23· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Rutherford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-28· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Muhammad, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-05-30

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Townsend
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-09· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Armstead
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 45×