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COM. v. ONE 1955 BUICK SEDAN

198 Pa.Super. 133 (1962)

Commonwealth v. One 1955 Buick Sedan (Scott, Appellant).

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 13, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward K. Nichols, Jr., with him Norris, Green, Harris and Higginbotham, for appellant.

Russell C. Wismer, Special Assistant Attorney General, with him George G. Lindsay and Horace A. Segelbaum, Assistant Attorneys General, and David Stahl, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.

OPINION BY ERVIN, J., June 13, 1962:

A hurricane, named Mapp v. Ohio,1 swept over our fair land last June. The present case is one of the numerous appeals coming to our Court as part of the backlash. It now becomes our duty to endeavor to reassemble the machinery for law enforcement in our Commonwealth.

It is apparently the view of many criminal defendants, as well as their counsel, that they may use Mapp as an escape...

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