Court Opinion

ID: 9648724
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:33:34.466413+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:04.986555
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ROBERTS, Justice,
dissenting.
Unlike the majority, I would do more than extend appellant an invitation to seek relief in PCHA proceedings. The record is clear, and I would now hold, that counsel was ineffective in failing to present in writing appellant’s application for relief under Pa.R.Crim.Proc. 1100(f). Once having made an oral motion for relief under Rule 1100, counsel could have no reasonable strategy basis not to preserve appellant’s Rule 1100 claim in a proper manner. See Commonwealth v. Von Smith, 486 Pa. 564, 406 A.2d 1034 (1979) (no strategy basis for making untimely motion for severance). Thus, in the interests of fairness and judicial economy, I would vacate judgment of sentence and remand the proceedings for proper consideration of appellant’s Rule 1100 claim.