Commonwealth v. Laurie

CIRILLO, Judge:

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an order dismissing criminal mischief, conspiracy, trespass and burglary charges against the appellee, Randy Laurie. The trial court held that the police had not exercised due diligence in attempting to locate appellee. Consequently, the court ruled the period of time between the filing of the criminal complaint and the arrest could not be excluded from the period within which appellee had to be tried pursuant to Pa.R.Crim.P. 1100. We reverse.

On August 25, 1981, appellee and a juvenile allegedly broke into an apartment, vandalized it,…