# Commonwealth v. Weimer

> Superior Court of Pennsylvania · December 28, 1978 · 262 Pa. Super. 69

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9750741

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Robert Francis WEIMER and John Edward Weimer
- **Court:** Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 28, 1978
- **Citations:** 262 Pa. Super. 69; 396 A.2d 649; 1978 Pa. Super. LEXIS 4366
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Spaeth
- **Judges:** Watkins, Jacobs, Hoffman, Cercone, Price, Van Voort Spaeth, Spaeth
- **Cited by:** 24 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that although a private club had a one-way mirror and buzzer system, the practice was to release the door whenever the buzzer was pressed and therefore there was no reasonable expectation of privacy, because for “all the owner and bartender knew, or apparently cared, t…

## Opinion text

SPAETH, Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the majority’s disposition, but only because I agree that appellees’ conduct in admitting the police shows that they did not regard the premises as private. I disagree with the majority’s extended dictum, that “assuming ar-guendo that the appellees entertained a reasonable expectation of privacy, we cannot agree the entry was improper.” Majority slip opinion 6-7 et seq.

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