723 A.2d 156
Decided December 7, 1998
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1998-12-07
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“Whether the packages containing drugs were properly recovered from Petitioner’s pants pocket pursuant to the Plain Feel Doctrine.”
quoted by 1 later decision, including Commonwealth v. Stevenson
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Decided 1998-12-07
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2018
14 state decisions
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¶1ORDER
¶2AND NOW, this 7th day of December, 1998, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, but LIMITED to the following issue:
Whether the packages containing drugs were properly recovered from Petitioner’s pants pocket pursuant to the Plain Feel Doctrine.
¶3This matter is to be consolidated for argument with In the Interest of R. A, a Minor, — Pa.-, 723 A.2d 156.