Case ID: pa-super_217/html/0770-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. Steich, Appellant.
    Submitted June 8,1970.
    
      Rodney D. Henry, Public Defender, for appellant;
    
      Michael F. O’Brien, Assistant District Attorney, and Ward F. Clark, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.
   Opinion

Per Curiam :

The order of the court below is vacated and the record remanded so that appellant may amend the post-conviction petition of May 6, 1969, to allege any extraordinary circumstances which justify the failure to raise his new allegations on his prior petition. Post Conviction Hearing Act, Section 4(b) (2), Act of January 25, 1966, P. L. (1965) 1580, 19 P.S. §1180-4(b) (2) (Supp. 1970). See Commonwealth v. Satchell, 430 Pa. 443, 243 A. 2d 381 (1968).

Wright, P. J., dissents.