Commonwealth v. Blount

OPINION BY STEVENS, P.J.E.:

Appellant, John M. Blount, appeals from the March 26, 2018, judgment of sentence entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County following the lower court's grant of PCRA 1 relief and resentencing of Appellant on, inter alia , his conviction for two counts of first-degree murder pursuant to Montgomery v. Louisiana , --- U.S. ----, 136 S.Ct. 718 , 193 L.Ed.2d 599 (2016), which held that state courts are required to grant retroactive effect to new substantive rules of federal constitutional law, such as Miller v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460 , 132 S.Ct. 2455 ,…