Court Opinion

ID: 9729739
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:47:53.072853+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:00.910200
License: Public Domain

SPAETH, Judge,
concurring:
In my dissenting opinion in Commonwealth v. Lewis, 247 Pa.Super. 46, 371 A.2d 1318 (1977), I expressed my opinion that the holding of Commonwealth v. Mayfield, 469 Pa. 214, 364 A.2d 1345 (1976), should be applied to cases decided prior to the announcement of the decision. That is, when we are called upon to review the grant of an extension of time under Rule 1100(c) on account of judicial delay, we must apply the Mayfield standard that “ . . . the record must also show the causes of the court delay and the reasons why the delay cannot be avoided.” Id. 469 Pa. at 222, 364 A.2d at 1350. In my view if there is no such record showing then the record must be remanded.
*117In this case I would not remand since the lower court’s opinion, while written without the benefit of the Court’s opinion in Mayfield, shows a sufficient explanation for the delay and the reasons it could not be avoided.