Commonwealth, Aplt v. Descares

OPINION

Justice TODD.

In this discretionary appeal by the Commonwealth, we consider whether Appellee Claude Descardes was entitled to seek review of his ineffectiveness of counsel claim, based on counsel’s failure to advise him of the collateral consequences of his guilty plea, via a petition for writ of coram nobis.1 We conclude that he was not, and, accordingly, vacate the Superi- or Court’s judgment to the contrary and dismiss Appellee’s underlying petition for relief under the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-9546.

In August 2006, Appellee, a Haitian national who held…