Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-08 20:09:24.350593+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:33:51.930838
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                               MIDDLE DISTRICT

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,                  : No. 113 MAL 2023
                                               :
                    Respondent                 :
                                               : Petition for Allowance of Appeal
                                               : from the Order of the Superior Court
              v.                               :
                                               :
                                               :
MICHAEL THOMPSON,                              :
                                               :
                    Petitioner                 :

                                       ORDER

PER CURIAM

      AND NOW, this 8th day of August, 2023, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is

GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is:

             Whether the [t]rial [c]ourt and the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
             erred in determining that an inventory search of an automobile by law
             enforcement is an exception to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
             decision in Commonwealth v. Alexander, 243 A.3d 177 (Pa. 2020)
             requiring a search warrant before conducting a search of a person’s
             vehicle or requir[ing] production and proof of exigent circumstances
             for a warrantless search of a vehicle?

      The Prothonotary is DIRECTED to list this matter for oral argument at the same

session as, and consecutive to, Commonwealth v. Saunders, 20 EAP 2023.