Court Opinion

ID: 9732295
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:14:38.121785+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:36.288860
License: Public Domain

DEL SOLE, Judge,
concurring:
I join the disposition of this case and the analysis of the majority in all respects save one. I disagree with the majority that 42 Pa. C.S.A. § 5553(e) is creating mischief. Rather, I believe that the legislature correctly determined that summary offenses should be disposed of at the trial court level within two years from the date of commission.
To claim that the defendant in this case benefited from his own delay ignores the responsibility of the Commonwealth to monitor its cases and to move them forward for disposition before the trial courts. As the majority opinion correctly points “the defendant’s post-trial motions, under the procedure in Lehigh County, could have been listed for argument by the Commonwealth as well as by the defendant.”. To label any delay in the disposition of this case as solely being the responsibility of the defendant ignores the *235prior statement in the majority’s opinion that the Commonwealth could have listed the matter for disposition.