Commonwealth v. Finley

*392POPOVICH, Judge:

This case is on remand from the United States Supreme Court,1 which, in reversing a three-judge panel of this Court,2 concluded that federal constitutional law did not require that Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), be made applicable to collateral proceedings under the Post Conviction Hearing Act (PCHA).3

We perceive our role now to be one of assessing whether PCHA counsel’s “no-merit” letter and the PCHA court’s independent review of the evidence in light of the pro se PCHA request for relief comport with Finley’s entitlement to…