Court Opinion

ID: 9960278
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-04-15 20:10:51.396959+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:19:20.437876
License: Public Domain

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                              EASTERN DISTRICT

 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,                    : No. 252 EAL 2023
                                                  :
                     Respondent                   :
                                                  : Petition for Allowance of Appeal
                                                  : from the Order of the Superior Court
              v.                                  :
                                                  :
                                                  :
 ANTHONY LEWIS,                                   :
                                                  :
                     Petitioner                   :

                                          ORDER

PER CURIAM

      AND NOW, this 15th day of April, 2024, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is

GRANTED, LIMITED TO the issues set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all

remaining issues. The issues, rephrased for clarity, are:

      1. Was the evidence sufficient to establish a high crime area, which, in
         addition to Petitioner’s flight upon observing the arrival of police officers,
         provided the basis for the Superior Court’s determination that the police
         possessed reasonable suspicion for a seizure that occurred when the
         police pursued Petitioner?

      2. Did the Superior Court err in concluding that Petitioner’s abandonment
         of the bag from which a firearm was recovered was not coerced by illegal
         police action, thereby requiring suppression of the firearm?