Court Opinion

ID: 9765596
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:09:02.291782+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:11.968886
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SAYLOR, Justice,
dissenting.
I join the dissenting opinion authored by Mr. Justice Nigro. I write only to note my belief that the finality concerns underpinning the rule fashioned in Commonwealth v. Lawson, 519 Pa. 504, 549 A.2d 107 (1988), are adequately addressed by the one-year filing limitation now incorporated into the Post Conviction Relief Act, see 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545, which was upheld by this Court in Commonwealth v. Peterkin, 554 Pa. 547, 722 A.2d 638 (1998). Thus, prospectively, it should be unnecessary, in the context of serial PCRA filings, to undertake the inherently vexing task of distinguishing between those prejudicial errors which undermine the reliability of a verdict and would require relief under the terms of the PCRA, and such *154errors as can be said to have resulted in a miscarriage of justice.