Commonwealth v. McGee, R.

Opinion

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN DISTRICT

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 297 WAL 2021 :

Respondent :

: Petition for Allowance of Appeal : from the Order of the Superior Court v. :

: :

RODNEY STERLING MCGEE, :

:

Petitioner :

ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 12th day of April, 2022, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is

GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is:

Does the Superior Court’s continued application herein and elsewhere of its holding in Commonwealth v. Jackson, 30 A.3d 516 (Pa. Super. 2011), that a trial court’s inherent jurisdiction to correct patent and obvious mistakes in its records and orders is subject to the time-bar provisions of the PCRA improperly constrict trial courts’ jurisdiction, improperly expand the scope of the time-bar, and/or conflict with this Honorable Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Holmes, 933 A.2d 57 (Pa. 2007), which recognized that claims invoking said jurisdiction are not cognizable under the PCRA and thus not subject to the time-bar?