Court Opinion

ID: 4577613
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2020-10-15 21:14:53.78196+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:25:03.340853
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                               EASTERN DISTRICT

 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,                   :   No. 741 CAP
                                                 :
                      Appellee                   :   Appeal from the Judgment of
                                                 :   Sentence imposed November 1,
                                                 :   1990 and re-imposed February 24,
               v.                                :   1993, in the Court of Common
                                                 :   Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal
                                                 :   Division at No. CP-51-CR-0126101-
 CRAIG MURPHY,                                   :   1984. (Nunc Pro Tunc rights
                                                 :   reinstated on May 3, 2017.)
                      Appellant                  :

                              CONCURRING STATEMENT

JUSTICE WECHT                                           DECIDED: October 15, 2020

       In Commonwealth v. Reid, 235 A.3d 1124 (Pa. 2020), a majority of a special panel

of this Court determined that the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Williams

v. Pennsylvania, ___ U.S. ___, 136 S.Ct. 1899 (2016), could not serve as a basis to

establish timeliness for purposes of the Post Conviction Relief Act. I joined the dissent in

Reid, and I continue to believe that it correctly explained why Reid had properly

established jurisdiction in the PCRA court. This disagreement notwithstanding, Reid is

now on the books. Accordingly, I am constrained to join the Court’s order to quash the

instant appeal.