Pennsylvania v. Taylor (majority)
Annotate this CaseAppellant Paul Gamboa Taylor appealed the PCRA court's dismissal of his third PCRA petition as untimely and finding trial counsel did not have a conflict of interest during his representation of appellant. Appellant, through PCRA counsel, filed a third PCRA petition alleging, for the first time, at the time he entered his guilty pleas, trial counsel had a conflict of interest which adversely affected his representation of appellant. Appellant contended trial counsel's representation of a a family member of his victim, and that representation was a conflict of interest. Specifically, appellant contended this conflict of interest caused trial counsel to abandon appellant's interests and begin working against him. The Commonwealth filed a motion to dismiss the third PCRA petition as untimely. The PCRA court ultimately determined trial counsel did not have an actual conflict of interest during his representation of appellant. Based on this determination, the PCRA court concluded there was no newly-discovered evidence of a conflict of interest that would bring appellant's petition within one of the PCRA's timeliness exceptions. Accordingly, it found the petition untimely and denied it. Upon review, the Supreme Court agreed, and concluded that the PCRA court properly found appellant failed to satisfy the newly-discovered evidence exception. His third PCRA petition was, therefore, untimely.
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