Commonwealth v. Tinsley

How courts have described this case

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• holding as soon as a petitioner completes his sentence, he is ineligible for PCRA relief, regardless of whether he was serving his sentence when he filed the petition
• holding as soon as a petitioner completes his sentence, he is ineligible for PCRA relief, regardless of whether he was serving his sentence when he filed the petition
• explaining that as soon as a PCRA petitioner’s “sentence is completed, the petitioner becomes ineligible for relief, regardless of whether he was serving his sentence when he filed the petition” (citation omitted)
• affirming order denying the appellant’s PCRA petition because the appellant was not eligible for relief due to the expiration of his sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-15· cited 1,461×
• Commonwealth v. Ahlborn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-19· cited 277×
• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-13· cited 137×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-29· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-02· cited 105×