Commonwealth v. Morales

How courts have described this case

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

• swallowing contraband after a policeman identified himself and ordered the defendant to \put your hand on your head\ supports a conviction for Tampering with Physical Evidence
• stating that it was “absurd to suggest … that [Morales] did not attempt to ‘conceal’” a packet of drugs “simply because the act of concealment was done in the presence of the officers”; by swallowing the drugs, Morales intended to impair the officers’ access to the packet
• defendant attempted to destroy evidence after officers displayed badges and shouted “police, put your hands in the air”
• court will arrest judgment only when criminal information misleads defendant as to charges against him
• defendant observed various buyers hand defendant money in exchange for blue glassine packets of suspected heroin, and when officers began to pursue defendant, he placed a blue packet in his mouth; defendant refused to remove from mouth and instead swallowed
• defendant observed various buyers hand defendant money in exchange for blue glassine packets of suspected heroine, and when officers began to pursue defendant, he placed a blue packet in his mouth; defendant refused to remove from mouth and instead swallowed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-22· cited 520×
• Commonwealth v. Yasipour
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-17· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-03· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-20· cited 37×
• Timberlake v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2000-09-07· cited 33×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2008-06-03· cited 32×
• State v. Sharpless
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1998-08-04· cited 31×
• Vigue v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-09-03· cited 30×
• State v. Mendez
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2001-12-17· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-11-05· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-14· cited 18×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-04-06· cited 14×
• In re Juvenile 2003-187
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2004-04-30· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Newsome
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-06· cited 10×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-09· cited 10×
• Mullins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-10-14· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Salter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-17· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Stitt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-03-26· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Erb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-30

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hardcastle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-10· cited 233×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. La
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-29· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-13· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Govens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-28· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Zimmick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-23· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Rolinski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-15· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. McIntosh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-04· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Eckert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-16· cited 2×