Post-Conviction Relief • Ineffective Assistance of Counsel • Abandonment • Newly Discovered Exception to Timeliness Requirement
Commonwealth v. Chester, PICS Case No. 17-0862 (Pa. Super. May 19, 2017) Musmanno, J. (10 pages).
PCRA court was to conduct hearing to determine whether defendant exercised diligence in discovering that counsel had abandoned him and failed to file a requested appeal, sufficient to invoke the newly discovered exception to the PCRA timeliness requirement. Order of the PCRA court vacated, case remanded.
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