Supreme Court of Pennsylvania November 22, 2016, No. 92 MAP 2015 (Commonwealth v. Rosado)

lead-opinion

OPINION

JUSTICE TODD

In this appeal, we consider whether filing an appellate brief which abandons all preserved issues in favor of unpreserved ones constitutes ineffective assistance of *426counsel per se.1 After careful review, we hold that it does, and so we vacate the Superior Court’s order and remand to that court for further proceedings.

The factual and procedural.