Commonwealth v. Helme

How courts have described this case

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

• where Commonwealth had no justification for initiating threshold inquiry of defendant by blocking his automobile, plain view doctrine may not be invoked to legitimize observations made when officers peered in windows
• “The policy of investigating parked automobiles with interior lights on is too broad to justify even the limited intrusion of approaching the car to determine ‘if everything is all right’”
• “[t]oo many alternative explanations, all of them innocent, exist which could explain the facts as presented to the officer and negate any suspicion that ‘a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).