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COMMONWEALTH v. PETERSON

Nos. 24 WAP 2017, 25 WAP 2017.

192 A.3d 1123 (2018)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Jeffrey Donald PETERSON, Appellant. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Jeffrey Donald Peterson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: September 21, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Thomas Newborn, Esq. , Reed Smith LLP, for Appellant.

Douglas W. Ferguson, Esq. , for Appellee.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.

OPINION

Subsection 9545(b)(1)(ii) of the Post-Conviction Relief Act, 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-46 ("PCRA") provides an exception to the PCRA's one-year time bar for the filing of petitions for relief if the petition pleads and proves that "the facts upon which the claim is predicated were unknown...

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