# Commonwealth v. Lagana

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · May 7, 1986 · 510 Pa. 477

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9649768

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Joseph LAGANA, Appellee
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** May 7, 1986
- **Citations:** 510 Pa. 477; 509 A.2d 863; 1986 Pa. LEXIS 777
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Hutchinson
- **Judges:** Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Hutchinson, Zappala, Papadakos
- **Cited by:** 27 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that, where jeopardy had not attached at a first suppression hearing, “there is certainly no constitutional bar to relitigating a suppression motion during ... a second prosecution”
- discussing the doctrine of coordinate jurisdiction

## Opinion text

HUTCHINSON, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result, on the basis of the facts before us. I am concerned, however, that the majority in its effort to prevent “judges of equal jurisdiction from entering diverse rulings on the same evidence,” is merely adding another interlocutory appeal to the criminal justice process. See Commonwealth v. Dugger, 506 Pa. 537, 548 , 486 A.2d 382, 387 (1985) (Hutchinson, J. concurring).

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