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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

v.

RONALD TERELL STOCKTON

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No. 844 MDA 2019 Appeal from the PCRA Order Entered May 8, 2019 In the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County Criminal Division at No(s): CP

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BEFORE: BOWES, J., STABILE, J., and MUSMANNO, J.

MEMORANDUM BY BOWES, J.: FILED NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Ronald Terell Stockton appeals pro se from the order dismissing as
untimely his serial petition filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act
(“PCRA”). We affirm.

The PCRA court summ arized the history of this case as follows:

As has been the modus operandi of [Appellant], his latest PCRA petition echoes a laundry list of alleged grievances against the trial court, his court

- appointed trial counsel, and the Huntingdon County District A ttorney. [Appellant]’s allegations, which have been previously litigated, are raised again well

- after the final judgment in this case.

. . . [Appellant] was found guilty of one count of aggravated assault after a trial by jury on September 16, 2014. H e was sentenced to 27 to 100 months in a state correctional institution to run consecutively to any sentence that he was then serving. [Appellant] subsequently filed multiple post

- sentence motions and multiple appeals to the Superior Court.
After the ju dgment of sentence was affirmed by the Superior Court on December 4, 2015, [Appellant’s] petition for allowanceJ

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of appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was denied at 14 MAL 2016 on April 20, 2016.
[Appellant] then filed a PCRA petition that was dismi ssed by this court on August 15, 2017, and that dismissal was affirmed by the Superior Court on August 6, 2018, at 1421 MDA 2017. On May 3, 2019, [Appellant] filed another document entitled PCRA petition that he referred to in the preamble as a “ nunc pro tunc PCRA petition.” It is the dismissal of [the] May 3, 2019 petition that brings us to [Appellant’s] latest appeal.
PCRA Court Opinion, 7/8/19, at 1

- 2 (unnecessary capitalization omitted).
Appellant states several questions for this Court’s considerat ion.
However, our resolution of the following are dispositive of this appeal:

A. Whether the [PCRA] court failed to analyze [Appellant]’s claim/petition as meeting the time exception to the PCRA under actual innocence?

B. Whether the [PCRA ] court failed to analyze [Appellant]’s claim/petition as meeting the exception to the time bar of [the] PCRA under the miscarriage of justice analysis?
Appellant’ s brief at 1

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We begin our review by noting that it is well

- settled that t he timeliness
of a post

- convict ion petition is jurisdictional. See , e.g. , Commonwealth v.

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1 The PCRA court, by order served on Appellant by first class mail on June 4, 2019, directed Appellant to file a statement of errors complained of on appeal within twenty

- one days pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b). On July 8, 2019, the clerk of courts docketed a statem ent that Appellant dated June 7, 2019. We shall assume for the sake of argument that Appellant’s statement was timely filed pursuant to the prisoner mailbox rule. See , e.g. , Commonwealth v. Saunders , 946 A.2d 776, 780 n.7 (Pa.Super. 2008) (accepting unde r the prisoner mailbox rule date on proof of service as the date on which 1925(b) statement was filed). His statement includes the issues we address herein. See Statement of Errors Complained of on Appeal, 7/8/19, at 4.J

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Lewis , 63 A.3d 1274, 1280

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relief under the PCRA, including a second or subsequent petition, must be filed
within one year of the da te the judgment of sentence is final unless the petition
alleges, and the petitioner proves, that an exception to timeliness is satisfied

. Those exceptions relate to governmental interference with the presentation of
the claim; newly

- discovered facts; and a newly

- recognized, retroactively

applicable constitutional right. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b) (1)

. Appellant, conceding that his petition is facially untimely, urges us, as
he urged the PCRA court, to acknowled ge “actual innocence” and “miscarriage
of ju stice” as exceptions to the PCRA’s time bar. See Appellant’s brief at 1;
PCRA Petition, 5/3/19, at 1

. Appellant’s contentions are unavailing.
[I]t is now well settled that there is no generalized equitable exception to the jurisdictional one

- year time ba r pertaining to post

- conviction petitions. The PCRA confers no authority upon this Court to fashion ad hoc equitable exceptions to the PCRA time

- bar in addition to those exceptions expressly delineated in the Act.

Commonwealth v. Harris , 972 A.2d 1196, 1 200 (Pa.Super. 2009).
Specifically, this Court has held that neither “actual innocence” nor
“miscarriage of justice ” are viable PCRA timeliness exceptions. See

Com monwealth v. Brown , 143 A.3d 418, 420

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(rejecting actual innocence as a basis for jurisdiction over an untimely PCRA
petition); Commonwealth v. Burton , 936 A.2d 521, 527 (Pa.Super. 2007 )
(“[T] here is no ‘ miscarriage of justice ’ standard exception to the time
requirements of the PCRA .”).J

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Acc ordingly, because Appellant failed to plead any cognizable exception

to the PCRA ’s timeliness requirements , the PCRA court properly dismissed
Appellant’s petition for lack of jurisdiction.

Order affirmed.

Judgment Entered.

Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq. Prothonotary

Date: 11/25/2019