Commonwealth v. Castro

¶ 1 This is an appeal from an order dismissing a PCRA petition as untimely. The question this case presents is whether a PCRA petition prepared pro se by a prisoner is “filed” when duly deposited in the United States Mail and addressed to the Clerk of Courts despite the Clerk of Courts’ failure to docket the receipt of the petition.1 Because we resolve the above question in the affirmative, we reverse.

¶ 2 On February 2, 1995, Appellant was convicted in a jury trial of two counts of aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, three counts of simple assault, one count of…