Commonwealth v. Still

How courts have described this case

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• accord, reviewing a trial court's application of former Pennsylvania Rule of Criminal Procedure 1405(A), the immediate predecessor of Pa.R.Crim.P. 704, without articulating this Court's scope or standard of review
• appropriate remedy for violation of Rule 704 is discharge only when the defendant can show prejudice due to the delay
• appellant’s assertion that “there was without question some resulting prejudice to the defendant’s interests” is a presumption of prejudice rejected by the Supreme Court
• where defendant received credit for time served and failed to show prejudice, eight month delay in sentencing did not require dismissal of charges
• appellant challenged delay in sentencing by filing a motion to dismiss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Neysmith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-28· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. West
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-02-15· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Fox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-07· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. McLean
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-02-18· cited 6×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Anders
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-18· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-09-12· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Anders
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-22· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-16· cited 10×