Case ID: pa-super_247/html/0555-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

372 A.2d 1229
    COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Paul S. RODGERS, Appellant.
    Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
    Submitted Dec. 22, 1976.
    Decided May 4, 1977.
    
      Joseph W. Mullin, Public Defender, Huntingdon, for appellant.
    Stewart L. Kurtz, II, Huntingdon, for appellee.
    Before WATKINS, President Judge, and JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN der VOORT and SPAETH, JJ.
   PER CURIAM:

Cause remanded for an evidentiary hearing on appellant’s contention that his pleas of guilty entered to No. 211 Criminal Action, 1975, and No. 227 Criminal Action, 1975, were involuntary because counsel was ineffective. Commonwealth v. Twiggs, 460 Pa. 105, 331 A.2d 440 (1975). The lower court shall appoint counsel who is not associated with the office of the Public Defender of Huntingdon County to represent appellant at the ineffectiveness hearing. Commonwealth v. Via, 455 Pa. 373, 316 A.2d 895 (1974); Commonwealth v. Crowther, 241 Pa.Super. 446, 361 A.2d 861 (1976). Appellant shall also be permitted to present to the lower court any other grounds which could support a petition to withdraw his guilty pleas. Commonwealth v. Roberts, 237 Pa.Super. 336, 352 A.2d 140 (1975).