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2013 PA Super 89
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,  IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF  
PENNSYLVANIA
Appellee  
v.  
THOMAS DUANE TAYLOR,  

Appellant No. 288 EDA 2012
Appeal from the Order Entered December 14, 2011
In the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County
Criminal Division at No(s): CP-39-CR-0004477-2004

BEFORE: STEVENS, P.J., BOWES, and FITZGERALD,* JJ.
OPINION BY BOWES, J.: Filed: April 19, 2013

Thomas Duane Taylor appeals from the order entered December 14, 2011, denying his serial post-conviction writ of habeas corpus, which we treat as an untimely PCRA petition and affirm, albeit on different grounds than set forth below.
A jury found Appellant guilty of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, and persons not to possess a firearm, after he shot his girlfriend in the head with a .22 caliber rifle. The trial court sentenced Appellant to eighteen to thirty-six years imprisonment on September 26, 2005, on the attempted homicide charge.  The court also imposed a concurrent sentence of one and one-half to three years for the persons not to possess a firearm
*  Former Justice specially assigned to the Superior Court.
conviction. Appellant filed a timely direct appeal and a panel of this Court affirmed. Commonwealth v. Taylor, 919 A.2d 977 (Pa.Super. 2007) (unpublished memorandum).  Our Supreme Court denied Appellant

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