Court Opinion

ID: 9651419
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 16:19:01.339526+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:33.718749
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice
(concurring).
Appellant seeks in this collateral proceeding to challenge the validity of his sentence for murder in the second degree. This he could have done in a direct appeal from his judgment of sentence. Having failed to pursue a direct appeal and to prove the existence of extraordinary and unusual circumstances justifying his failure to appeal, appellant’s present claim has been waived. Post-Conviction Hearing Act, Act of January 25, 1966, P.L. (1965) 1580, §§ 3(d), 4(b) & (c), 19 P.S. §§ 1180-3(d),-4(b) & (c) (Supp.1974); Commonwealth v. Hines, 461 Pa. 271, 336 A.2d 280 (1975). Accordingly, I agree that appellant is not entitled to relief and therefore concur in the result.