271 Pa. Super. 250 - Commonwealth v. Lovette’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
3
states following
September 1995
most recently cited
29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Roscioli · Commonwealth v. Bailey
Most-quoted passages
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“Appellant does not actively contend that the police officer was not permitted to stop and detain him briefly for identification. Nor does appellant assert that the police lacked probable cause to arrest him once the hat had been identified. Rather he contends that probable cause was lacking when the officer drove appellant to the burglarized house. Appellant identifies the officer’s placing him in the patrol wagon as the time of the arrest, because he was subject to the control of the officer. While we accept that appellant was required to accompany the officer for the one and one-half block trip, we disagree with his conclusion that in order to do so the police were required to have the same quantum of proof necessary to support a full-blown arrest. We are not faced with the aspects of such an arrest but, rather, with an identification procedure by which the officer could determine whether there was probable cause to arrest appellant and formally charge him with the criminal offenses. Instead of arresting appellant, the officer made an intermediate response by transporting appellant and the property a short distance for identification. Intermediate responses previously have been approved by the courts of this Commonwealth. Commonwealth v. LeSeuer, 252 Pa.Super. 498 , 382 A.2d 127 (1977); Commonwealth v. Harper, 248 Pa.Super. 344 , 375 A.2d 129 (1977), as guided by the Supreme Court decision in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), and Adams v. Wi”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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