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NON - PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

v. BRADLEY GATES, Appellant : : : : : : : : : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF

PENNSYLVANIA

No. 927 WDA 2018 Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered June 8, 2018

in the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County Criminal Division at No(s): CP
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- CR
- 0000469
- 2018, CP
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- MD - 0000043
- 2018, CP
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- MD - 0000044
- 2018, CP
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- MD - 0000045
- 2018, CP
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- MD - 0000046
- 2018 BEFORE: PANELLA, J., SHOGAN, J., and MUSMANNO, J. MEMORANDUM BY MUSMANNO, J.: FILED APRIL 29, 2019 Bradley Gates (“Gates”) appeals from the judgment of sentence imposed following the revocation of his probation. Additionally, Jessica A. Fiscus, Esquire (“Attorney Fiscus”), has filed a Petition for leave to withdraw as counsel and an accompanying brief pursuant to Anders v. California , 386 U.S. 738, 744 (1967). We quash the appeal , and d ismiss Attorney Fiscus’s Petition
. Following a consolidated hearing on January 31, 2018, the trial court found Gates guilty of one count of indirect criminal contempt 1 a t dockets CP
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- MD - 0000043
- 2018 (“No. 43
- 2018”), CP
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- MD - 0000044
- 2018, CP
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- MD - 0000045
- 2018, and CP
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- MD - 0000046
- 2018 (collectively, the “contempt dockets”), resulting from violations of a Protection From Abuse

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Order obtained by his wife. The trial cou rt imposed a $300 fine at each docket number. At No. 43
- 2018, the trial court sentenced Gates to a term of 1 to 6 months in prison, with credit for time served. The trial court sentenced Gates to 6 months of probation at each of the remaining contempt do ckets. The probationary terms were ordered to run concurrently with one another, but consecutive to the prison term imposed at No. 43
- 2018. On April 9, 2018, Gates pled guilty to one count of receiving stolen property 2 at CP
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- CR
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- 2018 (“No. 469
- 2018”). The trial court sentenced Gates to 2 to 12 months in prison, with immediate parole, and restitution in the amount of $2,797.58. The trial court ordered Gates’s sentence at No. 469
- 2018 to be served concurrently with any other sentence he was then serving. On February 21, 2018, the trial court entered an Order at No. 43
- 2018, granting Gates parole. 3 Gates subsequently entered a guilty plea for indirect criminal contempt. On June 8, 2018, the trial court conducted a Gagnon II 4 hearing at all five dockets. Gates admitted that he violated his probation by incurring a new indirect criminal contempt charge, and by violating the probation condition prohibiting contact with the victim. At No. 469
- 2018, the trial court revoked

_________________ __________ ______ ____ _______ 2 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 3925.
3 Gates remained in prison until April 9, 2018 , see N.T., 6/8/18, at 6, although the reason for this delay is not apparent from the certified record.
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Gates’s parole, and sente nced him to serve the remainder of his 2 to 12
- month prison term, with credit for time served. The trial court ordered Gates’s sentence at No. 469
- 2018 to be served consecutive to any other sentence he was then serving. At No. 43
- 2018, the trial court re voked Gates’s parole, and sentenced him to serve the remainder of his 1 to 6
- month prison term, with credit for time served. The trial court ordered Gates’s sentence at No. 43
- 2018 to be served consecutive to the sentence imposed at No. 469
- 2018. At each of the remaining contempt dockets, the trial court revoked Gates’s probation and sentenced him to consecutive terms of 1 to 6 months in prison. Gates filed a timely Notice of Appeal. In lieu of filing a concise statement, Attorney Fiscus filed a Stateme nt of her intention to file an Anders brief. Attorney Fiscus subsequently filed a Petition for leave to withdraw as counsel and an Anders Brief. Before considering the merits of Gates’s claims, we must first address the fact that Gates filed a single Notice of Appeal for all five docket numbers. Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 341(a) provides that “an appeal may be taken as of right from any final order of a ... trial court.” Pa.R.A.P. 341(a). Additionally, the Official Note to Rule 341 directs that “[w]here ... one or more orders resolves issues arising on more than one docket or relating to more than one judgment, separate notices of appea l must be filed.” Id. , Official Note. In Commonwealth v. Walker , 185 A.3d 969 (Pa. 2018), our Supreme Court clarified that “[t]he Official Note to Rule 341 provides a bright
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mandatory instruction to practitioners to file separate notices of appeal.” Id. at 976
- 77. Accordingly, the Walker Court held that the failure to comply with the dictates of Rule 341 and its Official Note would result in quashal of the appeal. Id. at 977; see also id. (indicating that the Court’s holding would be appl ied prosp ectively only, as “[t]he amendment to the Official Note to Rule 341 was contrary to decades of case law....” ). The Walker opinion was filed on June 1, 2018. Here, Gates filed his Notice of Appeal, listing all five docket numbers, on June 20, 2018. 5 Becaus e Gates’s non
- compliant Notice of Appeal was filed after the date of the Walker decision, we are constrained to quash the appeal. 6 See Walker , 185 A.3d at 977; Commonwealth v. Williams , 2019 PA Super 81 (Pa. Super. filed March

_________________ __________ ______ ____ _______ 5 On July 10, 20 18, this Court issue d a Rule to Show Cause why Gates’s appeal should not be quashed, pursuant to Walker . Gates filed a timely R esponse, arguing that Walker , which involved an appeal from a single order disposing of separate motions filed by four defendant s at four separate docket numbers, see Walker , 185 A.3d at 971, is in applicable to the instant case, which concerns only one defendant. Gates also argued that Walker does not apply because the trial court imposed a sentence on all five matters during one hearing. On July 25, 2018, this Court issued an Order discharging the Rule to Show Cause, and referring the issue to the merits panel. We conclude that Gates’s attempt to distinguish the circumstances of his case i s unavailing, as neither Rule 341 nor Walker indicates that a different standard must apply when multiple docket numbers concern the same defendant. Instead, as the certified record reflects that the trial court imposed a separate sentence at each docket number, Gates’s appeal clearly involve s “one or more orders [which] resolves issues arising on more than one docket or relating to more than one judgment[,]” Pa.R.A.P. 341, Official Note, and thus fits squarely within the dictates of Walker
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20, 2019) (quashing appeal where appellant filed a single notice of appeal containing multiple docket numbers on June 5, 2018, just four days after the Walker decision). Appeal quashed. Jurisdiction relinquished. Petition for leave to withdraw dismissed
. Judgment Entered
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Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq. Prothonotary

Date: 4/29/2019