¶1CONCURRING.
¶2Given this Court’s strict adherence to the PCRA’s time requirements, I am constrained to concur in the result reached by the majority. I also note that although I find Appellee’s allegations that counsel withdrew his first PCRA petition without his consent to be disconcerting, the fact remains that the withdrawal occurred while there was still time remaining in the PCRA’s one-year filing limit and Appellee failed to file another petition within that time period.