Commonwealth v. Carson

OPINION

Justice CASTILLE.

This collateral capital matter is before this Court on appeal from the trial court’s dismissal of appellant’s petition for relief under the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), 42 Pa.C.S. § 9541, et seq. For the following reasons, we remand appellant’s layered claim of counsel ineffectiveness concerning mitigation evidence to the PCRA court for an evidentiary hearing. In all other respects, we affirm the order below.

On November 18, 1999, this Court affirmed appellant’s judgment of sentence on direct appeal for the first-degree *523murder of William Lloyd, see Commonwealth…