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Date Created: 2023-09-15 17:10:47.409835+00
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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT O.P. 65.37

 IN RE: RYAN A. CASTANEIRA              :   IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
                                        :        PENNSYLVANIA
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 APPEAL OF: RYAN A. CASTANEIRA          :
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                                        :   No. 1682 MDA 2022

              Appeal from the Order Dated October 12, 2022
             In the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County
           Criminal Division at No(s): CP-22-MD-0001477-2022

BEFORE: PANELLA, P.J., BENDER, P.J.E., and McCAFFERY, J.

JUDGMENT ORDER BY PANELLA, P.J.: FILED SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

     Ryan A. Castaneira brings this appeal from an order denying his motion

for habeas corpus. In 2009, Castaneira was convicted of sex offenses in

Georgia and receive a sentence of ten years’ imprisonment followed by 20

years of probation. After release on parole, Castaneira was moved to

Pennsylvania pursuant to the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender

Supervision and began supervision by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation

and Parole (“the Board”).

     On October 6, 2022, Castaneira filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus

challenging the Board’s authority to impose conditions of probation that were

not ordered by a trial court. The trial court denied the petition without a

hearing on October 12, 2022, and Castaneira filed a timely motion for

reconsideration. On November 14, 2022, the trial court entered an order
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granting reconsideration and setting a hearing date. Later that day, Castaneira

filed a notice of appeal from the Order of October 12, 2022.

       Pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 1701, a timely order granting reconsideration

renders any notice of appeal, whether filed before or after reconsideration is

granted, inoperative. See Pa.R.A.P. 1701(b)(3) (“A timely order granting

reconsideration under this paragraph shall render inoperative any such notice

of appeal … theretofore or thereafter filed or docketed with respect to the prior

order. … Where a timely order of reconsideration is entered under this

paragraph, the time for filing a notice of appeal or petition for review begins

to run anew after the entry of the decision on reconsideration[.]”)

       As noted, on November 14, 2022, the trial court expressly granted

reconsideration of its October 12, 2022 order within the appeal period.1

Castaneira’s notice of appeal from the October 12, 2022 order, therefore, is

inoperative. By virtue of the trial court’s timely order granting reconsideration,

Castaneira’s instant appeal before this Court may not proceed.

       Accordingly, we quash this appeal so that the matter may proceed,

pursuant to the trial court’s order, in Dauphin County. Moreover, the time for

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1 A notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days of the entry of a final order.

See Pa.R.A.P. 903(a). Here the last day of the appeal period fell on Friday,
November 11, 2022, which was a court holiday. Therefore, under our Rules of
Appellate Procedure, both the order granting reconsideration and the notice
of appeal were timely filed on November 14, 2022. See 1 Pa.C.S.A. § 1908;
see also Pa.R.A.P. 107 (incorporating, inter alia, section 108, as an
appropriate authority for interpreting the Rules of Appellate Procedure).

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any appeal shall begin to run anew after the trial court’s entry of its decision

on reconsideration. See Pa.R.A.P. 1701(b)(3).

      Appeal quashed. Jurisdiction relinquished.

Judgment Entered.

Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq.
Prothonotary

Date: 09/15/2023

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