In re the Parental Rights to BD

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• rejecting newly discovered facts claim where petitioner made “no attempt to explain why the information contained in these statements could not, with the exercise of due diligence, have been obtained much earlier.”
• although first-time PCRA petitioner is entitled to appointment of counsel, there is no such entitlement on second and subsequent petitions
• although first-time PCRA petitioner is entitled to appointment of counsel, there is no such entitlement on second and subsequent petitions
• petitioner failed to satisfy newly discovered facts exception where no attempt to explain why he could not obtain the information much earlier with the exercise of due diligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).