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Title: Commonwealth v. Revere
Author : Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Release Date : January 28, 2005
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 76 KB

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This Court granted limited review to consider the propriety of the Superior Courts recognition of an exigent circumstances exception to the probable cause analysis employed in Commonwealth v. Lovette, 450 A.2d 975 (Pa. 1982). For the reasons that follow, we hold that exigent circumstances may justify police transporting a suspect a short distance in the absence of probable cause during the course of an investigative detention pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868 (1968); or stated another way, we conclude that, where exigent circumstances exist, a brief detention and transportation in a police vehicle does not automatically constitute an arrest which must be supported by probable cause. Accordingly, we affirm.