Commonwealth v. Baker

This appeal is from the order of the PCRA court below, which granted appellant leave to file a Petition for Allowance of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania nunc pro tunc. For the reasons that follow, we must transfer the case to our Supreme Court.

On October 1, 1986, following a jury trial, appellant was found guilty of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory rape, corruption of minors, and indecent assault. Post-trial motions were filed and denied, and appellant was sentenced on October 14, 1987. On direct appeal, this Court affirmed the judgment of sentence in an…