Commonwealth v. Hunter

WICKERSHAM, Judge:

This appeal involves a construction of the provisions of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure relating to accelerated rehabilitative disposition.

Rule 175 of the Pa.R.Crim.P. provides:

After a defendant is held for court by an issuing authority, the attorney for the Commonwealth, upon his own motion or upon request of the defendant’s attorney, may submit the transcript returned by the issuing authority to a judge empowered to try cases on information or indictment and may move that the case be considered for accelerated rehabilitative disposition.

Rule 179(c) of the…