Commonwealth v. Parks

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reiterating that “adequate and timely notice to the accused of court proceedings is fundamental to the constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair trial”
• holding appellant entitled to new trial de novo where appellant never received written notice of rescheduled trial de novo and docket did not reflect that such notice was sent
• holding no waiver of appellate issues where there was no recorded notation on the docket which indicated that the clerk of courts furnished defendant or counsel with a copy of concise statement order
• reversing and remanding for trial where appellant alleged he did not receive notice of the rescheduled de novo hearing, and certified record supported his aver-ments
• stating that “the date of entry of an order is the date the clerk of courts enters the order on the docket, furnishes a copy of the order to the parties, and records the time and manner of notice on the docket.” (citation omitted)
• reaching the merits of the appellant’s claims after determining that “counsel's failure to comply with the [t]rial [c]ourt's order [14] days of its docketing was obviously due, in this instance, to a breakdown of the court system”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-13· cited 137×
• Commonwealth v. Hess
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-25· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Marizzaldi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-20· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-18· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Gosselin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-11-05· cited 13×
• Com. v. Ishankulov, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-04-20· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-23· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lord
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-28· cited 1,456×
• Commonwealth v. Fahy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-27· cited 1,072×
• Commonwealth v. Jerman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-31· cited 107×
• COM. OF PENNSYLVANIA v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-12· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Hollerbush
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-23· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Askins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-18· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Holder
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-08· cited 6×