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- Dec 28, 2014
We have a date.
Preliminary Hearing
06/16/2015
2:00 pm
Joshua R. Keller
Scheduled
https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.ashx?docketNumber=MJ-02206-CR-0000107-2015
FAQ's updated.
Cool. Note that this might be waived anyway and never actually happen. Of course, this is a serious enough crime that counsel might actually be inclined to use the preliminary hearing to force the Commonwealth to put up some of its case up front. There's nothing to lose by that except time.
I'd still think the hearing might solely consist of waiving the formalities and moving ahead to trial.
While this is before a Magistrate Judge, the actual case will be before the Court of Common Pleas for Lancaster County. It will probably be assigned a new docket number with the new court.
You'll still search the same website to find it when it shows up there, but on the "Docket Sheets" pulldown, you'll pick Common Pleas Courts instead of Magisterial District Courts. I think this will be the case even if the case immediately pleads out because there will still be things like sentencing to deal with and a magistrate can't do that except for petty offenses.