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COM. v. BROWN

No. 162 MAP 2005.

943 A.2d 264 (2008)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Devon BROWN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 26, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Scott Ferguson, Esq., for Devon Brown.

William Hugh Graff, Esq., Scott P. Rigdon, Esq., Hugh S. Rebert, Esq., George N. Marros, Esq., Katherine L. Doucette, York, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER and BALDWIN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

Appeal was allowed to determine whether the filing of an untimely notice of appeal displaces the statutory one-year period for filing a state post-conviction petition, as suggested by a passage from this Court's decision in Commonwealth v. Murray, 562 Pa. 1, 753 A.2d 201 (2000).1

Appellant was convicted of possession of a controlled substance, possession...

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