Tag: #Suppression

Commonwealth v. Anderson

The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the order that granted the defendant’s suppression motion. The Commonwealth contended the lower court erred in categorizing the police officers’ interaction with the defendant as

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State v. Marcellus

The New Jersey Appellate Division reversed the trial court’s order that denied the defendant’s suppression motion. The defendant’s mother, who does not speak English, had a room in the defendant’s

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Commonwealth v. Hobel

After a jury convicted the defendant of three gunpoint robberies and a subsequent high-speed chase, he appealed to the Pennsylvania Superior Court and claimed that his motion to suppress was

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State v. Cotto

In a mammoth 70-page opus, the New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed a conviction for aggravated arson. The defendant argued that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress

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State. v. C.J.L.

The New Jersey Appellate Division reversed the lower court’s order that denied the State’s motion to compel a cell phone passcode from the defendant. The Appellate Division applied the holding

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United States v. Hurtt

The Third Circuit ruled that the District Court erred when it denied the defendant’s suppression motion. The defendant rode in the back seat of a truck, which police pulled over.

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Commonwealth v. Thomas

The Pennsylvania Superior Court was tasked with determining whether a suspect was stopped when an officer approached the suspect as he rode a bicycle and said, “Hold up for a

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State v. M.B.

The New Jersey Supreme Court revisited State v. Laurick, in which the Court held that prior uncounseled convictions for driving while intoxicated (DWI) in violation of N.J.S.A. 39:4-5 could not

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Commonwealth v. Lehnerd

The Pennsylvania Superior Court invalidated mom’s consent to search her son’s house. The defendant flipped his truck and then asked the people at a property nearby if he could use

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State v. Burney

The New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that the trial court’s findings concerning the trustworthiness of the defendant’s statement to police during his hospital-bed interrogation were inadequate to conclude that they

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