Commonwealth v. Pressley

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• holding that it was proper for a jury to infer concealment where an officer observed the defendant across the street reach under his sweater and then saw a gun at the defendant’s feet after a bus passed between the officer and the defendant
• holding it was proper for a jury to infer concealment where an officer observed defendant, who was standing across the street, reach under his sweater and then saw a gun at the defendant’s feet after a bus passed between the officer and the defendant
• evidence from which fact-finder could infer that Pressley had removed the gun from under his sweater
• evidence from which fact-finder could infer that Pressley had removed the gun from under his sweater

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-08· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Nickol
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-23· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Berta
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-02· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Montgomery, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-21