Commonwealth v. Ulbrick

I join in the order of the Court affirming the denial of appellant’s third petition for post-conviction relief, but for reasons which differ from those set forth in the Court’s opinion. In my view, appellant is precluded from challenging in a new collateral proceeding the sentence which was imposed following the granting of appellant’s second Post-Conviction Hearing Act petition by his failure to take an appeal from the imposition of that sentence.

On February 26, 1969, appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment upon two convictions of murder in the second degree. On September 16, 1969, he…