¶1concurring.
¶2I join in the majority opinion. I find that the majority opinion provides a strong framework for PCRA proceedings, particularly in the details of how to plead and prove claims involving layered ineffectiveness and waiver. Counsel should be mindful of this framework, as it will be applied to all petitions filed after the filing date of this opinion. Hereafter, this court will enforce the plain language of the PCRA and only those pleadings which conform to the requirements of the PCRA will be entitled to full review on the merits. I recognize that not all of the principles articulated in the majority opinion were necessary to the disposition of the matter sub judice. I nonetheless wholeheartedly endorse the majority’s attempt to provide a roadmap on the thorny issues arising in PCRA litigation. There are times when it is necessary to craft an opinion of broader scope in order to provide needed guidance on important issues of law. I believe that this is one of these occasions.
¶3concurring.
¶4I join the majority opinion but write separately only to clarify my position in Commonwealth v. Marrero, 561 Pa. 100, 748 A.2d 202 (2000), which the majority relies upon in reaching its conclusion on how claims of appellate counsel’s ineffectiveness are to be developed in PCRA capital cases. In Marrero, I found the appellant’s ineffectiveness claims were waived in light of the fact that the appellant merely added a boilerplate claim of appellate counsel’s ineffectiveness in his questions presented for review section. The appellant in Marreronever mentioned, much less discussed, his claim of appellate coun*586sel’s ineffectiveness in the discussion section of his brief. In my view, in order to avoid a finding of waiver, the appellant’s discussion section must not only address each prong of the ineffectiveness standard as it relates to trial counsel but must, at the very least, include a properly-layered assertion that all prior appellate counsel were ineffective for failing to raise trial counsel’s ineffectiveness.