Commonwealth v. Melograna, F.

How courts have described this case

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

• “We take up the abandonment issue first because our resolution of the question could make it unnecessary for us to decide the other issues on appeal”
• “Whether property is discarded in a public, private, or semi-private place is a factor in considering whether the property has been abandoned, but it is not dispositive.”
• “Nowak did not deny ownership of the backpack but he physically relinquished it when he fled the scene of the traffic stop, leaving the backpack behind in the car”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).