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Commonwealth v. McCandless

Citations

  • 648 A.2d 309
  • 538 Pa. 286
  • 1994 Pa. LEXIS 480

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that where a statute required probable cause, inter-jurisdictional pursuit was impermissible if based only upon mere suspicion
  • holding that where a statute required probable cause, inter-jurisdictional pursuit was impermissible if based only upon mere suspicion
  • suppressing evidence where municipal officer’s pursuit of driver into neighboring municipality violated act relating to municipal police jurisdiction
  • because officer lacked probable cause to believe an offense had been committed within his primary jurisdiction, Section 8953(a)(2) not applicable
  • respecting probable cause requirement for hot pursuit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cappy, Castille, Docket, Flaherty, Montemuro, Nix, Papadakos, Zappala

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