Commonwealth v. Crider

How courts have described this case

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• holding a trial court is not required to grant a defendant’s request for transcripts to pursue an appeal or PCRA relief where no such action is pending
• stating that “a court is not required to comply with a defendant’s request for transcripts in order to pursue relief in a PCRA proceeding where no such action is pending.”
• explaining that for petitioners whose convictions became final before January 16, 1996, amendments to the PCRA adopting a one-year statute of limitations, “the operative deadline” for first-time PCRA petitions would be January 16, 1997, well after petitioner’s filing
• rejecting government interference argument when the facts necessary to support petitioner’s claim were not contained in the requested notes of testimony
• “[A] trial court, confronted only with a petition (Footnote Continued Next Page
• “[A] trial court, confronted only with a petition for production of documents where no action is pending, is in no position to assess a petitioner's claims to determine whether they constitute compelling reasons warranting a grant of the petitioner's petition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).