COM. v. BLACK


520 Pa. 115 (1989)

552 A.2d 1046

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Adolph P. BLACK, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided January 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Guthrie, First Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellant.

Lawrence Hracho, Reading, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS and STOUT, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The appeal is dismissed as having been improvidently granted.

PAPADAKOS, J., files a dissenting opinion in which LARSEN, J., joins.

PAPADAKOS, Justice.

I must dissent from the majority's disposition of this case for several reasons. The most important of which is that their entire analysis is based upon the premise that an illegal search was the basis on which a warrant was obtained to seize contraband. My review of the record reveals...

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