Opinion
No. 78 EAL 2020
05-13-2021
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Respondent v. THOMAS TINSLEY, Petitioner
Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Unpublished Memorandum and Order of the Superior Court at No. 431 EDA 2016 entered on December 16, 2019, affirming the Order of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas at No. CP-51-CR-0011849-2013 entered on January 21, 2016 ORDER PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 13th day of May, 2021, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, the Superior Court's order is VACATED, and this matter is REMANDED to the Superior Court for remand to the trial court with instructions to grant Petitioner's motion to dismiss the pending firearms charges. See Commonwealth v. Johnson, ___ A.3d ___, 2021 WL 1133029, at *6 (Pa. filed Mar. 25, 2021) (holding that "the Commonwealth must generally assure that known offenses are consolidated at the common pleas level, when they arise out of single criminal episode and occur in the same judicial district").