Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent v. Elwood SMALL, Petitioner
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2019-04-23
Citations: 207 A.3d 289
Docket Number: No. 559 EAL 2018
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent
v.
Elwood SMALL, Petitioner
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 207
Pages: 289–289

Head Matter:
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent
v.
Elwood SMALL, Petitioner
No. 559 EAL 2018
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
April 23, 2019
ORDER

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 23rd day of April, 2019, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, LIMITED TO the issues set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all remaining issues. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Where Small did not receive notice of his co-defendant Larry Bell's 1993 PCRA hearing, and where Small has been continuously incarcerated, with only limited assistance of counsel on unrelated claims since that time, was Bell's PCRA testimony "unknown" to Small under Commonwealth v. Burton[, 638 Pa. 687, 158 A.3d 618 (2017)]?
(2) Has Small otherwise satisfied the requirements for an exception to the PCRA time-bar under [42 Pa.C.S.] § 9545(b)(1)(ii) based on his co-defendant Bell's PCRA testimony, such that the PCRA court's grant of a new trial should be reinstated?