COMMONWEALTH v. YONG

No. 19 EAP 2016.

177 A.3d 876 (2018)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Alwasi YONG, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: January 18, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Branden James Albaugh, Esq. , Ronald Eisenberg, Esq. , Lawrence Jonathan Goode, Esq. , Edward F. McCann Jr., Esq. , Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, Rufus Seth Williams, Esq. , for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellant.

Daniel John O'Riordan, Esq. , for Alwasi Yong, Appellee.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.


OPINION

JUSTICE MUNDY

We granted review to consider the parameters of what has been termed the collective knowledge doctrine.1 The specific issue presented in this case is whether an investigating officer's knowledge of facts sufficient to create probable cause to arrest may be imputed to a second officer, who arrests the suspect, when the two officers are working as a...

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