2017 Pa. Super. 128 - Commonwealth v. Champney’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “When the Commonwealth appeals from a suppression order, this Court follows a clearly defined scope and standard of review. We consider only the evidence from the defendant's witnesses together with the evidence of the prosecution that, when read in the context of the entire record, remains uncontradicted. This Court must first determine whether the record supports the factual findings of the suppression court and then determine the reasonableness of the inferences and legal conclusions drawn from those findings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Coughlin

2. “the nearly five-month break between [pretrial detainee's] invocation of his right to counsel and the prison interrogation removed the Edwards presumption of involuntariness”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Wint

3. “whose duty it is to determine if the suppression court properly applied the law to the facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Coughlin