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COMMONWEALTH v. MACKIE

456 Pa. 372 (1974)

Commonwealth v. Mackie, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 24, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Mirsky, Assistant Defender, with him Jonathan Miller, Assistant Defender, and Vincent J. Ziccardi, Defender, for appellant.

Louis A. Perez, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, with him Benjamin H. Levintow and Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorneys, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MANDERINO, May 24, 1974:

This appeal involves a street encounter between a citizen and a police officer which resulted in the arrest of the citizen. The issue is whether the arresting police officer had the constitutionally required probable cause to arrest the appellant, Thomas Mackie. See U.S. Const. amend. IV; Pa. Const. art. I, § 8. The appellant raised the issue in a pretrial application to suppress evidence. The application...

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