In Re Timothy C.

The questions presented by this case are three, namely, whether: where the deadline for filing a delinquency petition against a juvenile has expired, but the time for doing so has been extended without a finding of good cause, a juvenile court may make that good cause finding via a nunc pro tunc hearing; a 10-month delay in holding an adjudicatory hearing in a delinquency case constitutes a delay of constitutional proportions, sufficient to trigger the constitutional speedy trial analysis; and the 10-month delay, when coupled with prosecu-torial misconduct in the form of ex parte…