by admin | May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania
(A) The defendant shall be present at every stage of the trial including the impaneling of the jury and the return of the verdict, and at the imposition of sentence, except as otherwise provided by this rule. The defendant’s absence without cause at the time...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania
(A) A judge shall be present at all stages of the trial.(B) Any judge may preside at a pretrial conference, during the hearing and disposition of a pretrial application, or during the selection of a jury.(C) The judge who is present from the time the trial commences...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania
(A) COMMENCEMENT OF TRIAL; TIME FOR TRIAL (1) For the purpose of this rule, trial shall be deemed to commence on the date the trial judge calls the case to trial, or the defendant tenders a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. (2) Trial shall commence within the...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania
(A) Except as provided in paragraph (B), a defendant who is under the age of 18 at the time the complaint is filed and is charged with one of the offenses excluded from the definition of “delinquent act” in paragraphs (2)(i), (2)(ii), and (2)(iii) of 42...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania
(A) If the judge at the status conference conducted pursuant to Rule 595 determines the motion for transfer is not ready to be heard, the judge shall schedule additional status conferences no later than every 60 days after the first status conference until the motion...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania
A request for the transfer from criminal proceedings to juvenile proceedings in a case in which the defendant was under the age of 18 at the time of the commission of the alleged offense and charged with one of the offenses excluded from the definition of...
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