UNITED STATES v. ABBOTT

Crim. No. 83-165.

584 F.Supp. 442 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Charles J. ABBOTT, Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Division.

April 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis P. Kissane, Robert Perry, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.

Paul D. Boas, Berlin, Boas & Issacson, Wayne A. Babcock, James L. Weisman, Weisman & Pass, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant.


OPINION

SIMMONS, District Judge.

In the present criminal action this Court reviews the legality of a warrantless search of a parked automobile by local law enforcement officers.

On August 29, 1983, at approximately 11:00 P.M., two plainclothes police officers, Richard Martine and Robert Harbough, were stopped in an unmarked police car at a red light. In the lane to their immediate left sat an automobile operated by Charles J. Abbott, the defendant...

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