In Re BS’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2021
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Grant · Millili v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing · Commonwealth v. Lord · 249 Pa. Super. 149 - In the Interest of DelSignore · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Paulinski v. Isaac
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“In Grant , the Supreme Court held that as a general rule, ineffective assistance of counsel claims should be held for collateral review. [ 813 A.2d at 728 ]. This review is most commonly a petition under the [PCRA], 42 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 9541, et seq. As this is a juvenile case, and not a criminal one, Grant does not apply. [A .J. 829 A.2d at 315 n. 3]. Practical difficulties in applying Grant persuade us that to apply the procedures suggested by Grant to juvenile cases would be improper. Our Supreme Court’s decision in Grant is quite clearly focused towards the treatment of ineffectiveness claims of criminal defendants. While the Court uses the broader term “collateral relief’ and “collateral proceedings,” it speaks of the PCRA often and uses the term interchangeably with the above broader terms. See generally Grant, 813 A.2d 726 . The collateral relief it is quite clearly referring to is a petition under the PCRA. The PCRA, however, does not apply to juveniles. Matter of J.P., 573 A.2d 1057 [ (Pa.Super.1990) ]; 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 6354(a) (An order of delinquency “is not a conviction of a crime and does not impose any civil penalty ordinarily resulting from a conviction.”); see also In Interest of DelSignore, 249 Pa.Super. 149 , 375 A.2d 803 , 806 n. 3 (1977) ( [Post-Conviction Hearing Act] did not apply to juveniles). Nor does the Juvenile Act, 42 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 6301, et seq [.], provide for any alternative collateral relief for those judged delinquent. The absence of a collateral proc”
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