LANCIE v. GILES


132 Pa.Commw. 255 (1990)

572 A.2d 827

Mary LANCIE and Louis Lancie v. William GILES, James Tolar, Charles V. Becker, John Bosetti, Francis Butler and Joseph Capuso. Appeal of William GILES, James Tolar, John Bosetti, and Francis Butler, Appellants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 23, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gloria A. Tischuk, Deputy Atty. Gen., with her, Kate L. Mershimer, Deputy Atty. Gen., Calvin R. Koons, Senior Deputy Atty. Gen., John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Chief of Litigation Section, and Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Atty. Gen., for appellants.

William R. Haushalter, Rosenberg, Kirshner, P.A., Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before CRUMLISH, Jr., President Judge, and CRAIG, BARRY, COLINS, PALLADINO, McGINLEY and SMITH, JJ.


OPINION

BARRY, Judge.

William Giles, James Tolar, John Bosetti, and Francis Butler (appellants)1 are police officers from the City of Pittsburgh who were involved in obtaining and executing a search warrant. The officers forcibly entered a home owned by Mary and Louis Lancie (appellees), arrested Albert Stevenson, the subject of their investigation, and searched the floor of the house where Stevenson was found. The Lancies live...

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