Commonwealth v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that that the Commonwealth’s failure to provide mandatory discovery, when the Commonwealth does not contest the request, does not toll the speedy trial clock
• due diligence was not demonstrated where the Commonwealth attempted to justify its failure to secure a police report but had only requested the report two or three times
• due diligence was not demonstrated where the Commonwealth attempted to justify its failure to secure a police report but had only requested the report two or three times
• “[s]urely, the Commonwealth could have done more in its attempt to secure the report from the police”; “[i]ts failure to do so shows a lack of due diligence”
• addressing municipal court speedy trial rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Preston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-13· cited 536×
• Commonwealth v. Hunt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-10· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-04· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-19· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-25· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Zaslow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-01-26· cited 6×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Browne
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-27· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-23· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Woodell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-09· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Garrison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-03· cited 13×