Commonwealth v. Weinder

ROWLEY, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant James Weinder’s petition for relief pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), 42 Pa.C.S. § 9541 et seq. 1 As a result of incidents involving a ten-year-old female neighbor, appellant was convicted by a jury of two counts of rape and sentenced to two consecutive terms of imprisonment of five to ten years. A direct appeal was taken to this Court, which affirmed the judgment of sentence in an unpublished memorandum dated July 29, 1983. Appellant’s petition for allowance of appeal was denied by the Pennsylvania Supreme…