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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 10 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ashmon v. Banmiller.

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1 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ashmon v. Banmiller Anchor
pa · 1958
green “habeas corpus petition is not available for the correction of trial errors which could have been reviewed and corrected on appeal; it is not a substitute for an appeal or for a writ of error or for a motion for a new trial.” 7
2 Commonwealth v. Watts
pa · 2011
green “he statute confers no authority upon this court to fashion ad hoc equitable exceptions to the pcra time-bar in addition to those exceptions expressly delineated in the act.” 3

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