Commonwealth, Aplt v. Williams, T.

I join the Majority Opinion. Indeed, in my view, both the Brady1 claim appellee initially raised, and the Brady claim later uncovered by the PCRA2 court and upon which the court granted relief, are time-barred and frivolous. I write separately to expand upon the Majority discussion, and to address the important responsibilities of the PCRA trial courts in serial capital PCRA matters, an issue brought into stark relief by the extraordinary, and unauthorized, measures undertaken by the PCRA court in this case.

Preliminarily, with respect to the latter concern, I note that this is a case…