Commonwealth v. Sangricco

How courts have described this case

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

• “[n]othing in PCHA practice is more settled than the rule that a person seeking post-conviction relief is entitled to the assistance of counsel.”
• Nothing in PCHA practice is more settled than the rule that a person seeking post-conviction relief is entitled to assistance of counsel
• vacating an order dismissing an uncounseled petition for post-conviction relief where appointed counsel repeatedly failed to take action to amend the petition, and though the petitioner requested new counsel, the post-conviction court did not grant the request
• PCHA envisions that pro se petitioner will have legally trained counsel to advance position in acceptable legal terms
• PCHA envisions that pro se petitioner will have legally trained counsel to advance position in acceptable legal terms
• the second PCHA petition should have been treated as a first counselled PCHA petition where appointed counsel for the first PCHA petition neither acted as advocate nor sought formal withdrawal on frivolity grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).