Opinion
August 26, 2005.
Petition No. 140 WAL 2005 for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Superior Court entered March 16, 2005 at No. 1191 WDA 2004 affirming the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County entered June 30, 2004 at No. 589 of 1999.
ORDER
AND NOW, this 26th day of August 2005, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The decision of the Superior Court is REVERSED pursuant to Commonwealth v. Halley, 870 A.2d 795 (Pa. 2005), due to prior counsels' failure to file a Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) statement, which resulted in a waiver of all of petitioner's direct appeal claims. This matter is REMANDED to the PCRA court for reinstatement of petitioner's direct appellate rights.