Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, “[a]s soon as his sentence is completed, the petitioner becomes ineligible for relief, regardless of whether he was serving his sentence when he filed the petition”
• holding that Megan’s Law registration requirement, as a collateral consequence of an appellant’s convictions, does not provide a jurisdictional basis for PCRA relief, where appellant is no longer serving the underlying sentence
• holding that a registration and reporting requirement under Megan’s Law, as a collateral consequence of Appellant’s conviction, did not provide a jurisdictional basis for PCRA relief where Appellant was no longer serving underlying sentence
• [stating that the r]eporting requirements of Megan’s Law II are not “a sentence of imprisonment, probation or parole for the crime” for which PCRA may provide relief, but rather a collateral consequence of conviction
• “[T]he PCRA[, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9543(a)(1)(i),] precludes relief for those petitioners whose sentences have expired, regardless of the collateral consequences of their sentence.”
• “[T]he [Post Conviction Relief Act] precludes relief for those petitioners whose sentences have expired, regardless of the collateral consequences of their sentence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Charleston
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-06· cited 278×
• Commonwealth v. Grove
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-31· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Plunkett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-02· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Masker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-12-15· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Descardes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-23· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Tinsley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-11-30· cited 16×
• Gordon v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-12-30· cited 9×
• Com. v. Stultz, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-28
• Com. v. Cruz, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-12

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-25· cited 383×
• Commonwealth v. Ahlborn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-19· cited 277×
• Commonwealth v. Maldonado
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-18· cited 205×
• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-13· cited 137×
• Commonwealth v. Price
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-27· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-09· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Matin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-16· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Benner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-06-25· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Leidig
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-05-14· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. McCulligan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-13· cited 13×