Commonwealth v. Spotz, M., Aplt.

OPINION

JUSTICE WECHT.

In these consolidated appeals, 1 we consider whether the invocation of the United States Supreme Court’s decisions in Johnson v. United States, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), and Welch v. United States, - U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 1257, 194 L.Ed.2d 387 (2016), satisfies the newly-recognized constitutional right exception to the time limit prescribed by the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”). 2 See 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(1) (requiring all petitions for relief to be filed within one year of the judgment of sentence becoming-final); id. § 9545(b)(l)(iii) (providing…