Commonwealth v. Robinson

OPINION BY

GANTMAN, J.:

Appellant, Roy Robinson, appeals pro se from the order entered in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, dismissing his sixth petition, filed under the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), at 42 Pa. C.S.A. §§ 9541-9546. We hold Appellant failed to surpass the threshold jurisdictional requirements of the PCRA, and the court properly dismissed his sixth petition as untimely. Accordingly, we affirm.

The relevant facts and procedural history of this case are as follows. On April 30, 1990, the court sentenced Appellant on his jury trial convictions to life imprisonment…