Commonwealth v. Massie

How courts have described this case

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• independent counsel on appeal is not an adequate substitute for independent counsel at evidentiary hearing
• “ ‘[A] PCHA petitioner, represented by court-appointed counsel and alleging ineffective assistance of trial counsel, may not be represented by an attorney from the office with which the allegedly ineffective attorney was associated.’ ” (Citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).