Commonwealth v. Breakiron

How courts have described this case

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• noting that this Court's standard of review is limited to whether PCRA court's ruling was supported by record before it and free of legal error
• noting that this Court’s standard of review is limited to whether PCRA court’s ruling was supported by record before it and free of legal error
• stating that a petitioner must explain why he could not have learned the new fact(s) earlier with the exercise of due diligence
• rejecting governmental interference exception where petitioner failed to offer reasonable explanation why, with the exercise of due diligence, alleged interference of government officials could not have been ascertained earlier
• rejecting governmental interference exception where petitioner failed to offer reasonable explanation why, with the exercise of due diligence, alleged interference of government' officials could not have been ascertained earlier
• rejecting “attempts to utilize ineffective assistance of counsel claims as a means of escaping the jurisdictional time requirements for filing a PCRA petition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).