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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent v. Elwood SMALL, Petitioner
    No. 559 EAL 2018
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    April 23, 2019
    ORDER
   PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 23rd day of April, 2019, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, LIMITED TO the issues set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all remaining issues. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:

(1) Where Small did not receive notice of his co-defendant Larry Bell's 1993 PCRA hearing, and where Small has been continuously incarcerated, with only limited assistance of counsel on unrelated claims since that time, was Bell's PCRA testimony "unknown" to Small under Commonwealth v. Burton[, 638 Pa. 687, 158 A.3d 618 (2017)]?
(2) Has Small otherwise satisfied the requirements for an exception to the PCRA time-bar under [42 Pa.C.S.] § 9545(b)(1)(ii) based on his co-defendant Bell's PCRA testimony, such that the PCRA court's grant of a new trial should be reinstated?