Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Renchenski
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 28, 2012PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*252 OPINION
Justice SAYLOR.
Allowance of appeal in this matter was granted to address the applicability of Section 9543(b) of the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), see 42 Pa.C.S. § 9543(b), to delays in filing amended post-conviction petitions and the related issue of what obligation, if any, a petitioner has to move the litigation of his petition forward.
Following a jury trial, on July 12, 1984, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder, and later sentenced to life imprisonment, in connection with the strangulation death of Rosemarie Foley. The Superior Court upheld the sentence on direct…
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