Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 7/8/1981

Commonwealth v. Alexander

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432 A.2d 182
495 Pa. 26
1981 Pa. LEXIS 875

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waiver of issues raised in sixth PCHA petition filed twenty-four years after entry of guilty plea
“As successive PCHA petitions are the exceptions, concrete allegations of actual prejudice should be expressed in those petitions. Abstract assertions will not suffice ... petitioner must be able to demonstrate a specific factual predicate for prejudice caused by alleged errors____”
“As successive PCHA petitions are the exceptions, concrete allegations of actual prejudice should be expressed in those petitions. Abstract assertions will not suffice ... petitioner must be able to demonstrate a specific factual predicate for prejudice caused by alleged errors....”

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Judges: Flaherty, Kauffman, Larsen, Nix, O'Brien, Roberts

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