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· 3/23/1978

Commonwealth v. Eshelman

Citations

  • 383 A.2d 838
  • 477 Pa. 93
  • 1978 Pa. LEXIS 860

How courts have described this case

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

  • off-duty policeman’s search held governmental where he searched automobile for drugs “solely for the purpose of turning it over to his superior on the police force”
  • off-duty policeman's search held governmental where he searched automobile for drugs \solely for the purpose of turning it over to his superior on the police force\
  • off duty auxiliary police officer who came across abandoned car while looking for friend in woods was acting in his capacity as police officer when he retrieved package he suspected contained marijuana and gave it to local sheriff
  • off-duty police officer who came across an abandoned car while looking for a friend in the woods was acting in his capacity as an police officer when he retrieved a package he suspected contained marijuana and gave it to the local sheriff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino, Packel

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