Handdown List released on:January 22, 2025

Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence entered on his jury convictions of narcotic crimes. The court vacated and remanded, holding that Commonwealth failed to meet its burden to prove the existence of a valid arrest warrant at a suppression hearing where it failed to produce the warrant, failed to produce testimony from anyone with first-hand knowledge of the warrant, and failed to produce any documentary evidence which would confirm the existence of the warrant, with the result that evidence subsequently seized fro