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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
PENNSYLVANIA
Appellee
v.
JEFF SCHIRONE WILLIAMS
Appellant No. 704 WDA 2016
Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence April 12, 2016
In the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County
Criminal Division at No(s): CP-02-CR-0014658-2004
BEFORE: MOULTON, J., RANSOM, J., and PLATT, J.*
MEMORANDUM BY MOULTON, J.: FILED AUGUST 21, 2017
Jeff Schirone Williams appeals, pro se,1 from the April 12, 2016
judgment of sentence entered in the Allegheny County Court of Common
Pleas. We affirm.
We set forth the factual history of this case in a previous Post
Conviction Relief Act2 (“PCRA”) appeal, which we adopt and incorporate
herein. See Commonwealth v. Williams, 114 WDA 2012, unpublished
mem. at 1-3 (Pa.Super. filed March 12, 2013).
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Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court.
1
Williams has acted pro se through most of the proceedings in this
matter. Grazier hearings have been conducted at each stage, pursuant to
Commonwealth v. Grazier, 713 A.2d 81 (Pa. 1998).
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42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-9546.
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On June 25, 2007, the trial court sentenced Williams to an aggregate
term of 15 to 30 years’ incarceration following his convictions for kidnapping,
corruption of minors, possession with intent to deliver, possession of a
controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.3 Williams filed
a post-sentence motion, which the trial court denied on July 11, 2007.
Williams appealed to this Court and on May 3, 2010, we affirmed his
judgment of sentence.
On June 20, 2011, Williams filed his first PCRA petition, which he later
amended. The PCRA court dismissed Williams’ petition and Williams
appealed. On March 12, 2013, this Court vacated the PCRA court’s order
dismissing Williams’ petition and remanded for a hearing to determine
whether Williams should receive credit for time served. On June 26, 2013,
the trial court held a hearing at which Williams was present and modified
Williams’ sentence to reflect credit for time served. That same day, the trial
court entered a judgment of sentence. Williams appealed, and we affirmed
on February 20, 2014. Thereafter, Williams filed a second PCRA petition,
which the PCRA court denied on March 26, 2015. He appealed and, on
January 29, 2016, we affirmed the portion of the PCRA court’s order denying
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18 Pa.C.S. §§ 2901(a)(1), 6301(a)(1), 35 P.S. §§ 780-113(a)(30),
(a)(16), and (a)(32), respectively.
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relief on Williams’ Alleyne/Hopkins4 and offense gravity score (“OGS”)
claims and vacated the order to the extent it purportedly imposed fees and
costs as part of the 2013 judgment of sentence. See Commonwealth v.
Williams, 565 WDA 2015, unpublished mem. at 1-2 (Pa.Super. filed Jan.
29, 2016). We remanded for a determination of whether Williams was
responsible for fees and costs. Id.
Following remand, the trial court held a hearing on April 12, 2016, at
which Williams was present, and the court determined that the imposition of
fees and costs was a clerical error. That same day, the trial court entered a
judgment of sentence. Williams timely filed his notice of appeal.
Williams raises the following issues on appeal:
I. Whether the sentencing court erred by imposing
sentence by order without [Williams] being present
and failing to provide [Williams] with post sentence
motion rights pursuant to Pa.R.Crim.P. 704(c), which
denied [Williams] the opportunity to preserve[] any
sentencing errors pertaining to the instant new
sentencing order rendering the instant sentence
illegal[.]
II. Whether the sentencing court erred by imposing a
new sentence with erroneous calculated offense
gravity score for an alleged attempt to deliver
marijuana less than a pound[.]
III. Whether [Williams’] sentence imposed under 42
Pa.C.S. § 9714 pursuant to Alleyne, Hopkins and
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Alleyne v. United States, 133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013); Commonwealth
v. Hopkins, 117 A.3d 247 (Pa. 2015).
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Wolfe[5] is unconstitutional because the judge rather
than a jury has to determine whether the “instant
offense” is a “crime of violence” under 9714(d) and
this preponderance of evidence standard has been
ruled unconstitutional in every other statu[t]e with
such language and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
explained in Hopkins that this proof at sentencing
language is not severable from the statu[t]es which
makes the entire statu[t]e unconstitutional pursuant
to Alleyne.
Williams’ Br. at 5 (full capitalization omitted).
Williams first claims that the trial court erred because he was not
present when it imposed the modified sentence. He further claims that the
trial court denied Williams post-sentence motion and direct appeal rights.
This Court remanded the case to the trial court on January 29, 2016 to
determine whether Williams was responsible for fees and costs imposed as
part of his judgment of sentence. The trial court held a hearing on this
matter on April 12, 2016, at which Williams was present. See N.T.,
4/12/16; see also Order, 4/4/16 (ordering that Williams be transported to
courthouse on April 12, 2016). Thus, Williams’ claim that he was not
present when the trial court modified his sentence is belied by the record.
Moreover, Williams does not cite any evidence in the certified record,
nor have we found any evidence, that he attempted to file post-sentence
motions regarding whether he was responsible for costs and fees. The
record contains a notice of appeal filed on May 13, 2016, which is his current
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Commonwealth v. Wolfe, 140 A.3d 651 (Pa. 2016).
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appeal. Therefore, his claim that the trial court denied his post-sentence
and direct appeal rights also is belied by the record.
Williams next argues that the trial court erred in calculating his OGS in
2007 and that his sentence was illegal pursuant to Alleyne, Hopkins, and
Wolfe.6 Williams raised these issues in his June 12, 2014 PCRA petition and
we thoroughly addressed them in our January 29, 2016 memorandum.7 See
Williams, 565 WDA 2016, at 7-15.
Judgment of sentence affirmed.
Judgment Entered.
Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq.
Prothonotary
Date: 8/21/2017
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We note that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed Wolfe in
June of 2016, after our memorandum discussing this issue. 140 A.3d 651
(Pa. 2016). However, because Wolfe decided no new law and its holding
was affirmed it does not affect our previous analysis. See Williams, 565
WDA 2016, at 7-13.
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We further note that our January 29, 2016 remand was for the
limited purpose of determining whether Williams was responsible for costs
and fees, and he cannot now raise issues unrelated to that purpose. See
Commonwealth v. McKeever, 947 A.2d 782, 786 (Pa.Super. 2008);
Commonwealth v. Lawson, 789 A.2d 252, 254 (Pa.Super. 2001).
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