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*Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court.

NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION – SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P 65.37

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,

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NICK LOGAN,

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF

PENNSYLVANIA

 No. 473 WDA 2016

Appeal from the PCRA Order February 23, 2016

in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County,

Criminal Division at No(s): CP-02-CR-0000264-1992, 

CP-02-CR-0000266-1992, CP-02-CR-0015919-1991

BEFORE: FORD ELLIOTT, P.J.E., SHOGAN, and STRASSBURGER,* JJ.

MEMORANDUM BY STRASSBURGER, J.: FILED: December 16, 2016

Nick Logan (Appellant) appeals pro se from the order entered February 

23, 2016, dismissing his petition filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief 

Act (PCRA), 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-9546. Upon review, we affirm.

Appellant pled guilty to numerous crimes on June 17, 1992, at three 

separate docket numbers. He was sentenced to an aggregate term of 

incarceration of 41⁄2 to 21 years. According to the Commonwealth, Appellant 

was paroled in 2009. See Commonwealth’s Brief at 6 (“Appellant was 

apparently released from prison in 2009, although the exact date of his 

release is not clear from the record.”). 

On February 1, 2012, a jury convicted Appellant of numerous theftrelated crimes at docket numbers CP-02-CR-0004530-2011, CP-02-CR0004829-2011, and CP-02-CR-0006403-2011. He was sentenced to an 
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aggregate term of 8 to 17 years of incarceration.1 These “convictions 

resulted in violation of state parole” at the docket numbers involved in the 

instant case. Turner/Finley Letter, 1/4/2015, at 4; see also, PCRA Court 

Opinion, 7/13/2013, at 2; Commonwealth’s Brief at 6-7.

On October 20, 2015, Appellant filed pro se the instant PCRA petition. 

The PCRA court appointed counsel, who subsequently filed a petition to 

withdraw and no-merit letter pursuant to Commonwealth v. Turner, 544 

A.2d 927 (Pa. 1988), and Commonwealth v. Finley, 550 A.2d 213 (Pa. 

Super. 1988) (en banc). Counsel concluded that Appellant’s PCRA petition 

was untimely filed and no exceptions applied. On February 24, 2016, the 

PCRA court dismissed Appellant’s PCRA petition and permitted counsel to 

withdraw. Appellant filed a notice of appeal.2

Generally, a PCRA petition must be filed within one year from the 

date a judgment becomes final. There are three exceptions to 

this time requirement: (1) interference by government officials 

in the presentation of the claim; (2) newly discovered facts; and 

(3) an after-recognized constitutional right. When a petitioner 

alleges and proves that one of these exceptions is met, the 

petition will be considered timely. A PCRA petition invoking one 

of these exceptions must be filed within 60 days of the date the 

claims could have been presented. The timeliness requirements 

 

1 This Court affirmed his judgment of sentence on October 14, 2015. 

Commonwealth v. Logan, 134 A.3d 96 (Pa. Super. 2015).

2 Appellant’s notice of appeal was received by the Prothonotary on March 30, 

2016, which is beyond the 30 days permitted to file a notice of appeal. 

However, pursuant to the prisoner mailbox rule, and in light of our 

disposition, we will not dismiss this appeal as untimely filed. See 

Commonwealth v. Chambers, 35 A.3d 34 (Pa. Super. 2011).
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of the PCRA are jurisdictional in nature and, accordingly, a PCRA 

court cannot hear untimely petitions. 

Commonwealth v. Brandon, 51 A.3d 231, 233-34 (Pa. Super. 2012) 

(citations and quotation marks omitted).

Instantly, Appellant entered his guilty plea and was sentenced on June 

17, 1992. He did not file a post-sentence motion or direct appeal. Thus, his 

judgment of sentence became final thirty days later, on July 17, 1992. 

Accordingly, Appellant had until July 17, 1993, to file timely a PCRA petition. 

The instant petition, filed on October 20, 2015, is patently untimely. 

The PCRA court had no jurisdiction to entertain Appellant’s petition unless he 

pled and offered proof of one or more of the three statutory exceptions to 

the time bar. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(1). Appellant failed to do so. 

Accordingly, the PCRA court properly dismissed his petition.3

Order affirmed. 

 

3 We also point out that it is possible, based upon the fact that more than 21 

years has elapsed between the original judgment of sentence and the filing 

of this petition, that Appellant is no longer serving his judgment of sentence 

imposed for his parole violation in this case. That situation would render 

Appellant ineligible for PCRA relief. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 9543(a)(1)(i) (“To be 

eligible for relief under this subchapter, the petitioner must plead and prove 

by a preponderance of the evidence ... [that he] has been convicted of a 

crime under the laws of this Commonwealth and is at the time relief is 

granted ... currently serving a sentence of imprisonment, probation or parole 

for the crime[.]”). However, because it is not clear from the record, and 

Appellant’s petition is otherwise untimely, we will not make a determination 

with respect to Appellant’s eligibility for relief.
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Judgment Entered.

Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq.

Prothonotary

Date: 12/16/2016