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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF

PENNSYLVANIA

Appellee

v.

HASAN MUSTAFA BRADLEY,

Appellant No. 2071 MDA 2014

Appeal from the PCRA Order October 22, 2014

In the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County

Criminal Division at No(s): CP-14-CR-0000018-2010

BEFORE: BOWES, ALLEN, and LAZARUS, JJ.

MEMORANDUM BY BOWES, J.: FILED MAY 12, 2015

Hasan Mustafa Bradley appeals from the October 22, 2014 order 

denying post-conviction relief. Since the serial PCRA petition is untimely, 

and no exception to the time-bar was pled or proved, we affirm. 

On August 2, 2010, Appellant entered an open guilty plea to five 

counts of possession with intent to deliver cocaine and one count each of 

criminal conspiracy and criminal use of a communication facility. On 

November 12, 2010, he was sentenced to seven to fourteen years 

incarceration and a $25,000 fine. Appellant did not file a post-sentence 

motion or a direct appeal. 

On September 28, 2011, Appellant filed a timely pro se PCRA petition. 

Counsel was appointed. Counsel filed an amended PCRA petition on 
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Appellant’s behalf on January 16, 2012. After several continuances, an 

evidentiary hearing was held on December 4, 2012. At that time, counsel 

advised the court that Appellant was withdrawing his PCRA petition. The 

Commonwealth requested that the court ensure in its colloquy that Appellant 

understood that the petition would be dismissed with prejudice, and that any 

subsequent PCRA petition would constitute a second petition. N.T. PCRA 

Evidentiary Hearing, 12/4/12, at 4. 

Appellant was placed under oath and the trial court questioned him on 

the record. In response to the trial court’s inquiries, Appellant confirmed 

that he was satisfied with counsel’s representation, and that, in conjunction 

with his discussions with counsel, he wished to withdraw this PCRA petition. 

He verified that he was doing so voluntarily. Upon being informed by the 

court that it is much more difficult to file a second PCRA petition, and that it 

was not likely that he would obtain relief in a second PCRA petition, 

Appellant again acknowledged that he understood and wished to withdraw 

his petition. The court, satisfied that Appellant’s withdrawal was voluntary, 

permitted him to do so. The order provided that upon petitioner’s request, 

“the PCRA petition in this case is hereby withdrawn, with prejudice.” Id. at 

8. 

On August 20, 2014, Appellant filed a pro se motion for new trial, a 

motion to proceed pro se, and a request for a Grazier hearing via video 

conference, or alternatively a PCRA petition or writ of habeas corpus. The 
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court treated the motion as a PCRA petition and dismissed it on September 

4, 2014. On September 10, 2014, Appellant filed a motion seeking an order 

for the Commonwealth to show cause, or alternatively, a PCRA petition. 

Again, the court treated the motion as the latter and dismissed it on October 

22, 2014. Appellant filed the within appeal, complied with the trial court’s 

order to file a Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) concise statement of errors complained of 

on appeal. Appellant presents five questions for our review:

A) Whether plea counsel was ineffective for failing to inform 

Defendant of sentence/aggregation and the totality of the 

plea.

B) Whether the second/subsequent (PCRA) should be deemed as 

timely filed.

C) Whether the evidence was sufficient enough in which to 

sustain a verdict, and or to sentence Defendant as Defendant 

was sentenced. Whether the credibility of witnesses was 

reliable. 

D) Whether any issue(s) was waived by Defendant in the 

withdraw[al] of the first (PCRA) 42 Pa.C.S. § 5505.

E) Whether the Defendant should be re-sentenced to that of a 

lesser sentence, and or the sentence in it’s self modified, to 

be reduced. 

Appellant’s brief at 4. 

The trial court properly treated Appellant’s motion challenging his 

sentence as a PCRA petition. Commonwealth v. Taylor, 67 A.3d 1245, 

1248 (Pa. 2013) (collateral petitions raising issues and requesting remedies 

available under the PCRA are treated as PCRA petitions). All PCRA petitions, 
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even second ones, must be filed within one year from the date when 

judgment of sentence became final. 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(1). In this case, 

Appellant’s sentence became final on December 12, 2010. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 

9545(b)(3) (judgment of sentence becomes final at conclusion of direct 

review or at expiration of time for seeking such review). While there are 

statutory exceptions to the PCRA’s one-year time bar, Appellant has not pled 

nor proved any exception. 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(1)(i-iii). 

Appellant had until December 12, 2011 to file a timely PCRA petition 

and his September 10, 2014 petition was untimely. Thus, we do not have 

jurisdiction to entertain Appellant’s petition and the trial court properly 

denied relief. Taylor, supra at 1248. 

Order affirmed. 

Judgment Entered.

Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq.

Prothonotary

Date: 5/12/2015