Commonwealth v. Morton

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• arrest occurred when police handcuffed defendant and gave him no indication he could leave police building
• arrest occurred when police handcuffed defendant and gave him no indication he could leave police building
• defendant was “in custody” where handcuffed and placed in a police van and brought to the police station
• unnecessary delay found under Pa.R.Crim.P. 118 (“defendant . .. shall be taken without unnecessary delay before the proper .. . authority”) for 9-hour delay presentment; three prong test for rule 118 violation: (1) delay must be unnecessary; (2

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-20· cited 94×
• Valadez v. City of Des Moines
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-09-29· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-31· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Lovette
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-18· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Allessie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-27· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Ryles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-18· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Haggerty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-03· cited 8×
• In the Interest of Schirner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-09· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Gasper
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-29· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Knecht
  Northampton County Court of Common Pleas· 1981-01-12