PA: Date typo in affidavit for SW could be corrected in context of totality

A typographical error in a date of an occurence in the affidavit for search warrant for the year (2013 instead of 2014) could be overlooked in context of the affidavit as a whole which showed it a mere typo. Commonwealth v. Leed, 122 MAP 2016 (Pa. June 1, 2018). Following Greenstreet v. State, 898 A.2d 961 (Md. 2006):

Several other states have drawn the same distinction as we do in this case. See State ex rel. Collins v. Super. Ct. of Ariz., 629 P.2d 992, 994-95 (Ariz. 1981); People v. Lubben, 739 P.2d 833, 836 (Colo. 1987); State v. Rosario, 680 A.2d 237, 240-41 (Conn. 1996); Baker v. Commonwealth, 264 S.W. 1091, 1092 (Ky. 1924); State v. White, 368 So. 2d 1000, 1002 (La. 1979); State v. Chandler, 895 P.2d 249, 256 (N.M. Ct. App. 1995), cert. denied, 894 P.2d 394 (N.M. 1995); State v. Gomez, 813 P.2d 567, 569 (Or. Ct. App. 1991); Lane v. State, 971 S.W.2d 748, 753-54 (Tex. Ct. App. 1998); State v. Mitchell, 318 P.3d 238, 242-43 (Utah Ct. App. 2013); State v. Vickers, 59 P.3d 58, 68 (Wash. 2002).

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