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COM. v. RYAN

484 Pa. 602 (1979)

400 A.2d 1264

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Patrick RYAN and Marianne Casano, Appellants. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Leslie SHAHEEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 1, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Lee, Scranton, for Patrick Ryan.

George W. Westervelt, Jr., Stroudsburg, for Marianne Casano.

Charles P. Eyer, Sp. Asst. Dist. Atty., James F. Marsh, Dist. Atty., Marc Wolfe, Stroudsburg, for appellee.

Bruce A. Carsia, Norma Chase, Pittsburgh, for Leslie Shaheen.

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Charles W. Johns, Kemal Alexander Mericli, Asst. Dist. Attys., Pittsburgh, for appellee.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

O'BRIEN, Justice.

The instant appeals involve a single question of law which has never been addressed by this court: Can an issuing authority validly issue a search warrant for premises outside his or her magisterial district but within the same judicial district? We answer in the affirmative.

Appellants at No. 513 January Term, 1978, Patrick Ryan and Marianne Casano, were charged with violating the Controlled Substance, Drug...

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