Title: Commonwealth v. Blevins (Summary Disposition)
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 692 MAL 2001
State: Pennsylvania
Issuer: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Date: February 1, 2002

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Respondent v. ERIC L. BLEVINS, Petitioner : : : : : : : : : : No. 692 MAL 2001 Petition for Allowance of Appeal from Order of the Superior Court ORDER PER CURIAM: DECIDED: JANUARY 31, 2002 AND NOW, this 31st day of January 2002, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED and the order of the Superior Court vacating order of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County is REVERSED. The order entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County on July 26, 2000 is hereby reinstated. The Amended Petition for Post- Conviction Collateral Relief was timely filed to the extent that: 1) it raised a challenge related to the judgment of sentence entered July 29, 1999, 42 Pa.C.S. §9545; 2) it raised a challenge to the legality of sentence, 42 Pa.C.S. §9543(2)(vii); and 3) it was appellant’s first opportunity to raise such a challenge, 42 Pa.C.S. §9544.