Larsen v. Southern Shipbuilding Co.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that legality of sentence claims are non-waivable and always subject to review within the PCRA provided they are asserted in a timely petition
• holding that where appellant failed to file timely PCRA petition challenging legality of initial sentence, appellant’s claim as to legality of original sentence raised in later appeal from revocation sentence, was lost
• stating that “[a]lthough legality of sentence is always subject to review within the PCRA, claims must still first satisfy the PCRA’s time limits or one of the exceptions thereto.”
• stating that “[a]lthough legality of sentence is always subject to review within the PCRA, claims must still first satisfy the PCRA’s time limits or one of the exceptions thereto.”
• stating that this Court may raise issue implicating legality of sentence sua sponte
• stating that “[a] defendant shall be given credit for any days spent in custody prior to the imposition of sentence, but only if such commitment is on the offense for which the sentence is imposed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).