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... OPINION BY BOWES, J.: ¶ 1 The Commonwealth appeals from a September 26, 2006 order
suppressing drugs seized from a motor vehicle pursuant to a protective search for weapons
conducted after a lawful traffic stop. [1] We reverse and remand. ...
... BEFORE: CAPPY, CJ, CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER and BALDWIN, JJ. OPINION.
Justice EAKIN. At 3:30 am on August 24, 2004, Officer John Stephens was parked off Route 5, a
two-lane highway with a broken-yellow center line and no traffic signals. ...
... [2] We hold that this Court's decision in Commonwealth v. Minnich, 874 A.2d 1234
(Pa.Super.2005), finding that potential danger of causing an accident is sufficient to establish
probable cause to initiate a traffic stop, applies in full to the current reasonable-suspicion standard. ...