Commonwealth v. Hughes

OPINION BY

HUDOCK, J.:

¶ 1 Appellant, Brian Hughes, appeals from the order dated January 20, 2009, dismissing his first petition filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), 42 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 9541-9546. We affirm.

¶ 2 The facts and procedural history are as follows. The Commonwealth charged Appellant with one count each of forgery, identity theft, theft by deception, and criminal conspiracy1 after Appellant and two co-defendants signed Benjamin Maurer’s name without consent, or fraudulently induced him to sign his name, to a total of seven cashier checks and then cashed them.…