Title: Commonwealth v. Garnes, D. (summary disposition)
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 4 EAL 2024
State: Pennsylvania
Issuer: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Date: June 20, 2024

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Respondent v. DEVON GARNES, Petitioner : : : : : : : : : : : : : No. 4 EAL 2024 Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Unpublished Memorandum and Order of the Superior Court at No. 2125 EDA 2022 entered on December 6, 2023, affirming the Judgment of Sentence of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas at No. CP-51-CR- 0001301-2021 entered on July 21, 2022 ORDER PER CURIAM AND NOW, this 20th day of June, 2024, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, the order of the Superior Court is VACATED, and the matter is REMANDED to the Superior Court for reconsideration in light of this Court’s unanimous conclusion in Commonwealth v. Jackson, 302 A.3d 737 (Pa. 2023) (per curiam), that investigative detentions effectuated pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), constitutionally are limited to cases in which the totality of the circumstances demonstrate a particularized and objective basis for an officer reasonably “to suspect that the individual detained was, or was about to be, engaged in criminal activity,” and are not available solely to identify victims of, or witnesses to, criminal acts. See Jackson, 302 A.3d at 750, 754 (OISA, Brobson, J.); 761 (OISR, Donohue, J.); 762-63 (OISR, Dougherty, J.); and 771-72 (OISR, Wecht, J.).