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COMMONWEALTH v. BRADWELL

231 Pa.Super. 35 (1974)

Commonwealth v. Bradwell, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

September 23, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart H. Schuman and John W. Packel, Assistant Defenders, and Vincent J. Ziccardi, Defender, for appellant.

John H. Isom, Mark Sendrow, David Richman, and Steven H. Goldblatt, Assistant District Attorneys, Abraham J. Gafni, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before WATKINS, P.J., JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN DER VOORT, and SPAETH, JJ.

OPINION BY JACOBS, J., September 23, 1974:

The main issue in this appeal is whether the lower court should have suppressed appellant's confessions because they were obtained during a period of unnecessary delay after his arrest and before his preliminary arraignment.

In the early morning hours of January 25, 1972, a fire broke out in an apartment building in Philadelphia. Appellant, the custodian of the building, was arrested without a warrant by police in...

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