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Date Created: 2024-03-04 17:10:22.318204+00
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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT O.P. 65.37

  COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA                      :     IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
                                                    :          PENNSYLVANIA
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                v.                                  :
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                                                    :
  SARA M. BANGE                                     :
                                                    :
                       Appellant                    :     No. 1208 MDA 2023

         Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered July 25, 2023
     In the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County Criminal Division at
                       No(s): CP-01-CR-0001405-2021

BEFORE:      STABILE, J., SULLIVAN, J., and STEVENS, P.J.E.*

JUDGMENT ORDER BY SULLIVAN, J.:                     FILED: MARCH 4, 2024

       Sonia Bange (“Bange”) appeals from the judgment of sentence following

revocation of her probation. We quash.

       Given our disposition, we dispense with a detailed recitation of the facts.

In June 2023, Bange committed violations of probation. On July 25, 2023,

Bange pleaded no contest to the violations, and the court revoked her

probation    and     imposed    a   term       of   two    to   twenty-three   months   of

imprisonment. Bange filed a notice of appeal on August 25, 2023, the thirty-

first day after her judgment of sentence.

       A notice of appeal must be filed within thirty days of the entry of the

order being appealed. See Pa.R.A.P. 903; Commonwealth v. Green, 862

A.2d 613, 616 (Pa. Super. 2004) (en banc). This Court may not extend the

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* Former Justice specially assigned to the Superior Court.
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time for filing a notice of appeal. See Pa.R.A.P. 105(b). Thus, Bange had

until August 24, 2023, to file a timely notice of appeal. However, she filed the

instant notice of appeal on August 25, 2023.

      This Court issued a rule to show cause why the appeal should not be

dismissed as untimely. See Order, 9/28/23. Bange’s counsel filed an answer

alleging an attempt to file a timely notice on appeal on August 24, 2023, and

contact with the clerk of courts on August 25, 2023. See Answer to Rule to

Show Cause, 10/10/23, at 3 (unnumbered). However, counsel has provided

no evidence to support these assertions, despite our Order directing her to do

so within seven days. See Order, 2/16/24. We are accordingly compelled to

quash Bange’s appeal as untimely filed. See Pa.R.A.P. 903; Green, 862 A.2d

at 616; Pa.R.A.P. 105(b).

      Appeal quashed. Jurisdiction relinquished.

Judgment Entered.

Benjamin D. Kohler, Esq.
Prothonotary

Date: 03/04/2024

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