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COMMONWEALTH v. DREUITT

457 Pa. 345 (1974)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Dreuitt.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 1, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cliff Haines, Assistant District Attorney, with him Edward G. Rendell and David Richman, Assistant District Attorneys, Abraham J. Gafni, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant.

Jack M. Myers, with him Zack, Myers and Atkinson, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE O'BRIEN, July 1, 1974:

This appeal arises from an order granting appellee Andre Dreuitt's motion to suppress his confession in which he admitted complicity in a homicide. The Commonwealth has appealed that decision.

Pursuant to a valid arrest warrant, Andre Dreuitt was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, at 5:40 a.m., on February 2, 1972, for his alleged role in the teenage-gang killing of fourteen-year-old Keith Sworn in Philadelphia....

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