Opinion
No. 739 CAP
10-15-2020
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Appellee v. HENRY DANIELS, Appellant
Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence entered April 23, 1990 in the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Division at No. CP-51-CR-1031751-1988. (Nunc Pro Tunc appeal rights reinstated on April 28, 2017.) CONCURRING STATEMENT JUSTICE WECHT
In Commonwealth v. Reid, 235 A.3d 1124 (Pa. 2020), a majority of a special panel of this Court determined that the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Williams v. Pennsylvania, ___ U.S. ___, 136 S.Ct. 1899 (2016), could not serve as a basis to establish timeliness for purposes of the Post Conviction Relief Act. I joined the dissent in Reid, and I continue to believe that it correctly explained why Reid had properly established jurisdiction in the PCRA court. This disagreement notwithstanding, Reid is now on the books. Accordingly, I am constrained to join the Court's order to quash the instant appeal.