Court Opinion

ID: 9630703
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 10:18:00.06577+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:41.874875
License: Public Domain

*508Justice EAKIN
concurring.
The majority brings to mind the due process claim, “you can’t execute me because you didn’t execute me soon enough,” which has not been well received, except by the Ninth Circuit. Habeas corpus relief may exist only where PCRA relief is not possible; not where PCRA claims have been exhausted. Coady v. Vaughn, 564 Pa. 604, 770 A.2d 287, 293 (2001) (Castille, J., concurring). Here, appellee exhausted his direct appeal and PCRA efforts. He should not be afforded habeas relief on a colorable constitutional claim spilled over from a PCRA claim, which is no longer available. The PCRA is the exclusive means of obtaining collateral relief, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9542, and should remain so.