Commonwealth v. Castro

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that clerk of courts erred by forwarding a pro se petition to the defendant’s former counsel after the direct appeal process had ended
• holding that the prisoner mailbox rule provides that the date of delivery of a court filing by the defendant or PCRA petitioner to the proper prison authority or to a prison mailbox is considered the date of filing
• holding document deemed filed by prisoner when delivered to prison authorities for mailing
• filing focuses upon litigant’s placement of document in hands of appropriate officer; hence, Appellant’s envelope bearing postmark of December 27, 2019 demonstrated a timely filing
• filing of second petition triggered inquiry into never- docketed petition, which was held still pending
• explaining that the prisoner mailbox rule extends to PCRA proceedings and provides that the date of delivery of the mailing by the defendant to the proper prison authority or to a prison mailbox is considered the date of filing of the petition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pabon v. Mahanoy
  Third Circuit· 2011-07-12· cited 327×
• Robert Jenkins v. Superintendent Laurel Highland
  Third Circuit· 2013-01-15· cited 302×
• Commonwealth v. Leggett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-28· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-13· cited 113×
• Kittrell v. Watson
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-02· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Hopfer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-01-28· cited 34×
• Griffin v. Central Sprinkler Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-04-25· cited 26×
• Pettibone v. Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation and Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-16· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-31· cited 16×
• Dumas, L. v. Brooks, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-31· cited 3×
• Satterfield v. Johnson
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2002-09-06· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Plummer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-08· cited 1×
• Order Adopting New Rules 576.1 and Amending Rules 113, 114 & 576 of Pa.R.Crim.Pro
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-01-25

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Houston v. Lack
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-24· cited 6,563×
• Fallen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 244×
• Commonwealth v. Jerman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-31· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-09-08· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Quail
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-24· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-09· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Keys
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-28· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Fralic
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-28· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Ginglardi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-04· cited 12×