Opinion

Commonwealth v. Gambit

  • 501 Pa. 453
  • 462 A.2d 211
  • 1983 Pa. LEXIS 629
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Jul 8, 1983
Status
Published
On the bench
Flaherty, Larsen, McDERMOTT, McDermott, Nix, Roberts
Cited by
9 cases
Authority
More cited than 75.0%

officers may rely on radio broadcasts in executing a valid arrest, but knowledge of dispatcher and other officers may not be imputed to officer who did not hear broadcast

How later courts described this case

  • officers may rely on radio broadcasts in executing a valid arrest, but knowledge of dispatcher and other officers may not be imputed to officer who did not hear broadcast

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

Order affirmed.

*454 LARSEN, J., dissents in the result without an opinion.

McDERMOTT, J., files a dissenting opinion.

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