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· 5/21/1999

Commonwealth v. Yarris

Citations

  • 731 A.2d 581
  • 557 Pa. 12
  • 1999 Pa. LEXIS 1406

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that court should follow law of the case except under exceptional circumstances, as when holding is clearly erroneous
  • holding that court should follow law of the case except under exceptional circumstances, as when holding is clearly erroneous
  • holding that timeliness of a Petition implicates the jurisdiction of this Court and therefore we may consider the matter sua sponte
  • holding that the time limit is jurisdictional, and an untimely petition would not be addressed simply because it is couched in terms of ineffectiveness of counsel or because it is filed in a capital case
  • holding that “vague and unsupported” allegations are inadequate to establish the PCRA’s time-bar exception
  • holding that the time limit is jurisdictional, and an untimely petition would not be addressed simply because it is couched in terms of ineffectiveness of counsel or because it is filed in a capital case

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Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Saylor

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