Commonwealth v. Liebensperger

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• explaining petitioner must -4- J-S73002-18 specifically plead timeliness exception to invoke jurisdiction over untimely PCRA petition
• rejecting PCRA petitioner’s claim of mental incompetence where he failed to plead or prove “the crucial point in time at which he passed from incompetence to competence, discussing only his chronic mental illness”
• this Court “has refrained from quashing an appeal as untimely where [he was not] advise[d] of his appellate rights.”
• defendant’s mental health not an exception to the PCRA time bar as defendant was evaluated for competence to stand trial, was found competent, and was able to cooperate with counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).