Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent, v. Clinton O'Dell WHITEHEAD, Petitioner
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2006-07-06
Citations: 588 Pa. 309
Docket Number: No. 1080 MAL 2005
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent, v. Clinton O’Dell WHITEHEAD, Petitioner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 588
Pages: 309–310

Head Matter:
904 A.2d 856
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent, v. Clinton O’Dell WHITEHEAD, Petitioner.
No. 1080 MAL 2005.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
July 6, 2006.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 6th day of July, 2006, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The Order of the Superi- or Court is vacated, and the matter is remanded to that court for a determination of the issue of timeliness of the PCRA petition. See Commonwealth v. Murray, 562 Pa. 1, 753 A.2d 201.(2000) (the time limitations of the PCRA are jurisdictional and no court may disregard or alter those requirements in order to reach the merits of claims raised in an untimely filed petition). Jurisdiction is relinquished.