302 Pa. Super. 86 - Commonwealth v. Hamlin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
March 1991
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Commonwealth v. Goodwin · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Melton
Most-quoted passages
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“As was stated in Commonwealth v. Johnson, 467 Pa. 146, 151-52 , 354 A.2d 886, 889 (1976): “In reviewing th[e] ruling [of a suppression court,] our initial task is to determine whether the factual findings are supported by the record. ‘In making this determination, we are to consider only the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses and so much evidence of the defense as, fairly read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontradicted.’ Commonwealth v. Goodwin, 460 Pa. 516, 522 , 333 A.2d 892, 895 (1975). If, when so viewed, the evidence supports the factual findings we are bound by such findings; we may only reverse if the legal conclusions drawn therefrom are in error.” (Footnote omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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