Commonwealth v. Pate

How courts have described this case

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

• noting credibility of witnesses in PCRA proceedings is exclusively within the province of the trial court
• “once the PCRA court finds that the petitioner’s appellate rights have been abridged, it should grant leave to file a direct appeal and end its inquiry there.”
• “The remedy for non[]compliance with the rule is a remand to the trial judge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).