Commonwealth v. Colon

How courts have described this case

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• holding a constitutional claim of violation of speedy trial rights is separate from a Rule 600 issue
• holding that Rule 600 “was adopted to protect defendant’s constitutional rights to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment [to] the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of the Pennsylvania Constitution” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that it is the Commonwealth that has the burden of demonstrating it exercised due diligence in bringing the defendant to trial on time
• stating, “[a] speedy trial analysis thus mandates a two-step inquiry: (1) whether the delay violated [Rule 600]; and, if not, then (2
• stating “[t]he Commonwealth must do everything reasonable within its power to guarantee that a trial begins on time[.]” (emphasis added, citation omitted)
• noting Pennsylvania adopted the predecessor to Rule 600 to provide clearer administration and enforcement of a defendant’s speedy trial rights than the “amorphous” test formulated in Barker

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Maddrey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-02-22· cited 159×
• Commonwealth v. Leaner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-08· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Barbour, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-18· cited 85×
• Com. v. Wiggins, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-01· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Dixon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-06-07· cited 18×
• Com. v. Martz, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-28· cited 4×
• Com. v. Speed, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-09-11· cited 1×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Commonwealth v. Preston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-13· cited 536×
• Commonwealth v. Ramos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-15· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Bradford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-05-30· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Goldman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-12· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. McNear
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-06-14· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Whitaker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-05-12· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-04· cited 73×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-24· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Brock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-01-23· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. DeBlase
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-29· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Kearse
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-13· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-19· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Terfinko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-13· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Monosky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-15· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Sloan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-28· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Booze
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-05-01· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Pichini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Haynes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-04· cited 6×