Christopher Rance Giles v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “regardless of how a petition is titled, courts are to treat a petition filed after a judgment of sentence becomes final as a PCRA petition if it requests relief contemplated by the PCRA[,]” including illegal sentencing claims (cleaned up)
• stating the general proposition that the failure to file a timely notice of appeal will divest the appellate court of jurisdiction to hear the issue
• “[O]ne’s failure to appeal timely from an order generally divests the appellate court of its jurisdiction to hear the appeal.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• “Jurisdiction is vested in the Superior Court upon the filing of a timely notice of appeal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).