Court Opinion

ID: 9748378
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 16:00:53.583301+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:34.972862
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*126Justice CAPPY,
concurring.
I cannot join the majority opinion to the extent that it reviews Appellant’s arguments as claims of trial court error. Appellant presents some of his claims in terms of trial court error and the majority opinion addresses those claims in kind. I cannot join the merits analysis as to those claims, since Appellant failed to comply with the Pierce1 standard of ineffectiveness and thus, such claims are waived. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Albrecht, 554 Pa. 31, 720 A.2d 693 (1998)(eliminating relaxed waiver in capital cases for purposes of collateral review).
In all other respects, I join the majority opinion.

. Commonwealth v. Pierce, 515 Pa. 153, 527 A.2d 973 (1987).