IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
EASTERN DISTRICT
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 300 EAL 2018
:
Respondent :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal from
: the Order of the Superior Court
v. :
:
:
HAROLD COST, :
:
Petitioner :
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 4th day of December, 2018, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal
is GRANTED, LIMITED TO the issue set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all
remaining issues. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is:
(1) Did not the Superior Court panel misapply and expand this Court’s decision
in Commonwealth v. Lyles, 97 A.3d 298 (Pa. 2014), in reversing the grant
of suppression by the trial court, because where two officers retain control
of a person’s identification in order to run a background check while
continuing to question him about his possessions, the interaction is
escalated from a mere encounter to an investigative detention?