Commonwealth v. Chester

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided 2006-03-21

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Justice BAER, concurring. As I agree with the overall disposition of the majority opinion, I write separately only to distance myself from the broad view espoused by the majority with regard to the after-discovered evidence exception to the Post-Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”), 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-9546. Whereas the majority would find that counsel’s DUI arrest was public record, and therefore, generally discov…

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