Commonwealth v. Jackson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
FITZGERALD, J.:
¶ 1 Appellant, Eugene Clinton Jackson, appeals pro se from the order of the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, denying his second petition filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA). 1 Appellant has also filed a petition to supplement his brief. We hold that the PCRA court erred when it dismissed appointed counsel sua sponte after the evi-dentiary hearing. Accordingly, we deny Appellant’s petition as moot, but remand for appointment of counsel.
¶2 A previous panel of this Court set forth the relevant procedural history of this case:
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