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COM. v. COHEN

529 Pa. 552 (1992)

605 A.2d 1212

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Stuart Richard COHEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Reargued October 21, 1991.

Decided March 19, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmanuel H. Dimitriou, Reading, for appellant.

John W. Packel, Philadelphia, for amicus curiae, Public Defender Assoc. of Pa.

Ernest D. Preate, Jr. Atty. Gen., Lois H. Lichtenwalner, Andrea F. McKenna Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Ronald Eisenberg, Chief, Appeals Div., Karen Grigsby, Asst. Dist. Atty., for amicus curiae, Pa. Dist. Attys. Assoc.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS, and CAPPY, JJ.

OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

In this eighteen-year-old murder case, the Commonwealth appealed from the trial court's grant of the defendant's motion in limine which precluded the admission of specified evidence during his retrial. Superior Court held that the orders were pretrial "suppression orders" which practically terminated or substantially handicapped the prosecution, appealable...

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