Commonwealth v. Jones

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided 2012-09-28

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Chief Justice CASTILLE, concurring. I join the Majority Opinion. I write separately only to note my skepticism concerning serial PCRA 1 petitions containing supposed “new” claims arising from discovery authorized by federal district courts during the habeas corpus review process of judgments involving Pennsylvania state prisoners. With very rare exceptions, the point of fed…

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