Rasberry, Jamelle Shaquil

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• holding that periods of delay caused by a defendant after the expiration of the Rule 600 time period are irrelevant to the computation of delay
• stating that “[b]y the terms of Rule 600, the Commonwealth must bring a defendant to trial within 365 days from the date upon which a written criminal complaint is filed.”
• stating, “where a defendant voluntarily fails to appear for a required court proceeding, the resulting delay is attributable to him[, or her,] alone, and shall be excluded from the time chargeable to the Commonwealth”
• a defendant’s absence, from pre- trial proceedings at which his appearance is required, results in the time being excludable
• “[T]he Rule 600 run date may be adjusted pursuant to the computational directives set forth in Subsection (C) of the Rule.”
• “the Commonwealth’s failure to bring the defendant to trial before the expiration of the Rule 600 time period constitutes grounds for dismissal of the charges with prejudice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).