Commonwealth v. Brown

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• concluding that there are no formal requirements for a Rule 600 waiver if the record indicates it was an informed and voluntary decision of the (Footnote Continued Next Page
• holding that, under Rule 600, excludable time includes the unavailability of the defendant or the defendant’s attorney, as well as any continuance granted at the request of the defendant or the defendant’s attorney
• stating that the time taken by the court to decide a Rule 600 motion “renders the time excludable”
• “[T]o obtain relief, a defendant must have a valid Rule 600 claim at the time he files his motion to dismiss the charges.”
• where trial judge was involved in another trial, the delay attributed thereto constituted “excusable time”
• where “the trial court had yet another trial in progress, and rescheduled Appellee’s trial” it was a circumstance over which “the Commonwealth had no control” and so the delay “is excusable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Preston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-13· cited 536×
• Commonwealth v. Booze
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-25· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Barbour, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-18· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-10-24· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Colon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-03-07· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Frye
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-10-12· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Malgieri
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-09· cited 16×
• Com. v. Ransom, R
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-12-12
• Com. v. Brandt, Z.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-05-29

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hunt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-10· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Myrick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Spence
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-30· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-17· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Aaron
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-17· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-12-21· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Wroten
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-22· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Guldin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-01· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Corbin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-05· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Rega
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-23· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-27· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-01· cited 15×