Police Interaction • Unlawful Seizure • Mere Encounter • Reasonable Suspicion

Commonwealth v. Newsome, PICS Case No. 17-1399 (Pa. Super. Sept. 7, 2017) Elliott, J. (10 pages).

The trial court erred in granting defendant’s omnibus pretrial motion to suppress a fireman defendant discarded in a flowerpot as he walked away from police where the totality of the circumstances established that defendant was not seized when initially encountered by police. The court reversed a suppression order and remanded for further proceedings.

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