If a case starts in criminal court and is later transferred to juvenile court, it is not established that the juvenile will prevail on a Rule 600 Motion if they are counting the time that a case is pending in juvenile court.
A juvenile should have their Bucks County juvenile defense lawyer look at their dockets to find out where the timeline of the juvenile's case. The lawyer should be aware of the 1981 case Commonwealth v. Mitchell, where a case bounced from criminal court, to juvenile court, and back to criminal court (it was certified to adult court). In this case, the defendant's lawyer filed a Rule 600 motion for speedy trial purposes. The court, in this case, did not count the period of time the case was in juvenile court and ruled that time excludable in counting the days of the case.