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COM. v. SPENCE

No. 33 MAP 2013.

91 A.3d 44 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant v. Wesley Alfonso SPENCE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 28, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Francis X. Reilly, Esq. , John Joseph Whelan, Esq. , Delaware County District Attorney's Office, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Robert Frederick Datner, Esq. , Robert F. Datner, P.C., Philadelphia, for Wesley Alfonso Spence.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, STEVENS, JJ.

OPINION

Justice McCAFFERY.

In the late afternoon of March 4, 2008, a high school student ("the arrestee") was involved in a traffic stop in Delaware County and was subsequently arrested for illegal possession of prescription drugs. Later that evening at the Media Barracks, Pennsylvania State Trooper Scott J. Miscannon met with the arrestee, who quickly agreed to become a confidential informant.1 The trooper proposed that...

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