Raymond Louis Harvey, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia

The majority has done an excellent job analyzing the issue of whether merely agreeing to the Commonwealth’s suggestion of a trial date tolls the statutory “speedy trial” deadlines of Code § 19.2-243 in the context of our jurisprudence prior to the day oral argument was held in this case. Indeed, prior to our recent decision in Dufresne v. Commonwealth, 66 Va.App. 644, 791 S.E.2d 335 (2016) (en banc), which was decided the day oral argument was heard in this case, I would have concluded that this Court’s decision in Baker v. Commonwealth, 25 Va.App. 19, 24, 486 S.E.2d 111, 114, aff'd en banc,…