Commonwealth v. Bischof

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• stating where appellant successfully conceals violation or evades arrest, then any consequent delay will be attributed to appellant
• finding delay unreasonable when it resulted, in part, from 15-month wait for certified copy of conviction
• reversing and remanding for resentencing after the parole revocation court modified an appellant’s sentence instead of recommitting him to serve the balance of his sentence
• rejecting appellant’s due process challenge, stating “[a]ppellant was already incarcerated on the charges for which his parole was revoked, and was therefore not occasioned any loss of personal liberty because of the delay in holding his revocation hearing.”
• defendant not prejudiced by delay as he was already incarcerated on the charges for which his parole was revoked
• \Appellant suffered no harm in the way of favorable evidence or witnesses lost to him because of the delay.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).