Court Opinion

ID: 9642336
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Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:55:23.747468+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:46.172253
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*517BROSKY, Judge,
concurring:
I agree with the majority and concur in the result reached by the majority, but believe that we should respond to the Commonwealth’s contention that the record amply supports the Rule 1100 motions court judge’s decision to grant the Commonwealth’s June 21, 1979 petition for an extension. Rule 1100(c).
In Commonwealth v. Postell, 280 Pa.Super. 550, 552, 421 A.2d 1069, 1070 (1980), we said:
Contrary to appellant’s contention that the lower court erred in relying upon such court records, this court has impliedly permitted such use. Commonwealth v. Gibson, 248 Pa.Super. 348, 375 A.2d 132 (1977); Commonwealth v. Kollock, 246 Pa.Super. 16, 369 A.2d 787 (1977).
In the instant case, the Rule 1100 motions court judge decided that due diligence had been undertaken by the Commonwealth when he noted that the record indicated that both the trial judge and the detective were ill. The Commonwealth’s second extension petition contended only that an extension was necessary because the Commonwealth’s witness, the detective, was ill. Clearly, the Commonwealth did not prove that it had acted with due diligence. Their petition and the record states no more than a bald assertion that the detective was ill. This assertion is clearly insufficient. To hold otherwise would lessen the Commonwealth’s burden to an insignificant level similar to that found in form petitions. Commonwealth v. Ehredt, 485 Pa. 191, 401 A.2d 358 (1979).
Thus, the analysis we presented in Commonwealth v. Postell, supra, is not applicable herein. I would not hold that the Commonwealth has proven due diligence, based upon facts contained in the record, which were noted by the trial court, except under the very limited circumstance where the delay was clearly and exclusively caused by the administration of the judicial system and the Commonwealth’s petition claims that the extension is required because of those judicial delays.
*518I agree with the members of majority where they opine that the trial court improperly granted the Commonwealth’s June 21,1979 petition for an extension. Therefore, Delpiano was brought to trial in violation of Rule 1100 and accordingly must be discharged.