Commonwealth v. Robinson

*502 OPINION OF THE COURT

Justice CASTILLE.

In the past several years, this Court has weighed in upon the validity of various theories devised to avoid the effects of the one-year time limitation which was adopted as part of the 1995 amendments to the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA), 42 Pa.C.S. § 9541 et seq. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Baroni, 827 A.2d 419 (Pa.2003) (claim of structural error does not surmount PCRA time limitation); Commonwealth v. Rienzi, 827 A.2d 369 (Pa.2003) (Superior Court erred in attempting to circumvent PCRA time-bar by treating untimely, second PCRA petition as if it…