Commonwealth v. Maldonado

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• holding defendant failed to satisfy his burden of establishing a reasonable expectation of privacy in vehicle, where vehicle was owned by his girlfriend and he did not put forth any evidence that his girlfriend gave him permission to drive her vehicle
• finding defendant failed to establish expectation of privacy in girlfriend’s vehicle he was driving; although he lived with girlfriend, defendant presented no evidence he “had permission from [her] to drive the car”
• finding defendant failed to establish expectation of privacy in girlfriend’s vehicle he was driving; although he lived with girlfriend, defendant presented no evidence he “had permission from [her] to drive the car”
• defendant had no expectation of privacy in girlfriend’s car he was driving where he established he lived with girlfriend but presented no evidence he had permission from her to drive car
• defendant failed to satisfy his burden of establishing a reasonable expectation of privacy in vehicle, where the vehicle was owned by his girlfriend and he did not put forth any evidence that his girlfriend gave him permission to drive her vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Reese
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-04· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-21· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Caban
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-12-18· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Arthur
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-02-20· cited 55×
• Com. v. Peak, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-03-30· cited 21×
• Com. v. Moore, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-02-13· cited 7×
• Com. v. Arrington, W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-06-09· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Carrillo-Quintero
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2013-12-10
• Commonwealth v. Anderson, G., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-07-23

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-05-13· cited 470×
• Commonwealth v. Foglia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-21· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-05· cited 89×