Commonwealth v. Kelley

OPINION BY

GANTMAN, P.J.:

Appellant, Jason Robert Kelley, appeals from the order entered in the Adams County Court of Common Pleas, which denied his first petition brought pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”) at 42 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 9541-9546. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

The relevant facts and procedural history of this case are as follows. The certified record reveals that Appellant gave his son, who was under the age of eighteen, counterfeit currency to purchase ride tickets at a high school carnival and receive genuine currency as change. Carnival workers caught…