IN INTEREST OF JERMAINE


399 Pa.Super. 503 (1990)

582 A.2d 1058

In the Interest of Kathleen JERMAINE. Appeal of COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed October 22, 1990.

Reargument Denied December 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley Bridge, Asst. Public Defender, Philadelphia, for appellee.

Deborah Fleisher, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, for Com., appellant.

Before WIEAND, BECK and POPOVICH, JJ.


WIEAND, Judge:

Where a police officer, without show of force, approaches a juvenile in a public railroad station and asks her questions and she, without coercion, consents to a search of the bag which she is carrying, are the drugs found in her bag subject to suppression as the fruits of unlawful police conduct? The trial court held that the juvenile, because of her youth, "was not of an age where consent was freely given" and suppressed the drugs found in her bag...

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