Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bennett
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided August 23, 2007No. 6 EAP 2005PublishedCited by 1,051 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Chief Justice GAPPY.
The issue before the Court is whether Appellant is entitled to reinstatement of his Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”)1 appeal rights nunc pro tunc in a second PCRA petition, filed more than one year after the date his judgment of sentence became final, when his original PCRA appeal was dismissed because of PCRA counsel’s failure to file a brief. The Superi- or Court quashed Appellant’s appeal as untimely. For the following reasons, the order of the Superior Court is vacated *386and this matter is remanded to the PCRA court for further proceedings consistent with this…
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