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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 4/20/1972

Commonwealth v. Futch

Citations

  • 447 Pa. 389
  • 290 A.2d 417
  • 1972 Pa. LEXIS 542

How courts have described this case

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

  • deciding for the first time in this Commonwealth that all evidence obtained during an `unnecessary delay' between arrest and arraignment, except, that evidence unrelated to the delay, is inadmissible
  • deciding for the first time in this Commonwealth that all evidence obtained during an ‘unnecessary delay’ between arrest and arraignment, except, that evidence unrelated to the delay, is inadmissible
  • deciding for the first time in this Commonwealth that all evidence obtained during an \unnecessary delay\ between arrest and arraignment, except that evidence unrelated to the delay, is inadmissible
  • deciding for the first time in this Commonwealth 'that all evidence obtained during an “unnecessary delay” between arrest and arraignment, except that evidence unrelated to the delay, is inadmissible
  • construing Pa.R.Crim.P. 118 (now Pa.R.Crim.P. 130) to prohibit the use at trial of evidence obtained during an unnecessary delay between arrest and preliminary arraignment
  • identification obtained during uncounselled line-up after unnecessary 13-hour delay was inadmissible, but harmless error, in light of other independent identification evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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236 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named Commonwealth v. Futch

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