Brandon Alexander Blacknall v. State

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• holding that judicial opinions do not qualify as facts for the purposes of 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9545(b)(1)(ii)
• holding that judicial decisions are not new “facts” for purposes of the newly-discovered fact exception
• holding that Burton established neither a new constitutional right nor a watershed rule of criminal procedure
• explaining that changes in the application of the PCRA’s exceptions to the timebar do not qualify as new Constitutional rights for purposes of § 9545(b)(iii)
• reiterating that “judicial decisions do not constitute new ‘facts’ for purposes of the newly-discovered [fact] exception set forth in Section 9545(b)(1)(ii
• stating judicial decisions do not constitute new facts under Section 9545(b)(1)(ii)

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