418 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Lagamba’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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1. “The well established judicial principle is that in reviewing a suppression court’s ruling the appellate court is bound by factual findings supported by the record. [A]nd, [it] may not substitute [its] own findings for those of the suppression court. This principle of deference to trial courts has one important caveat however, appellate courts are not bound by findings wholly lacking in evidence. # * s}; # # ?{: [WJhere the Commonwealth is appealing the adverse decision of a suppression court, a reviewing court must consider only the evidence of the defendant’s witnesses and so much of the evidence of the prosecution as read in context of the record as a whole remains uncontradicted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 425 Pa. Super. 567 - Commonwealth v. Camacho