Commonwealth v. Heilman

Decided 2005-01-18

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OPINION BY JOHNSON, J.: ¶ 1 This case returns to our Court for the third time in the past fourteen years. We are called upon to consider the propriety of the trial court’s dismissal without a hearing of Heilman’s second petition under the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA), 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-46. With that petition, Heilman seeks testing under PCRA’s § 9543.1, the recently enacted section that permits an inmate to seek DNA te…

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