Commonwealth v. Carter

CAVANAUGH, Judge:

In this appeal, Gerald Carter contends that his due process rights and rights under Pa.R.Crim.P. 1101 were violated because he was tried within the Career Criminal Program of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. He argues that because the judges in that program are aware that defendants assigned thereto have prior convictions, he was deprived of his right to be tried without a jury before an impartial factfinder, and that the District Attorney’s Office usurped authority which our Supreme Court had previously denied it in creating a situation wherein the trial court had no…