Justice CASTILLE, concurring. I join the Majority Opinion, except for its discussion of appellant’s layered claim of ineffective assistance of counsel deriving from counsels’ failure, at trial and on direct appeal, to challenge his mental competence to be tried. See Majority op. 582 Pa. at 484-91, 872 A.2d at, 1153-57. I respectfully disagree with the Majority’s conversion of this ineffectiveness c…
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