context: Generally, a court "may modify or rescind any order within 30 days after its entry, if no appeal has been taken." Included among these exceptional circumstances to Section 5505's jurisdictional time limits is where the court sua sponte corrects an illegal sentence originally imposed, even after the defendant has begun serving the original sentence.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.parenthetical: finding an amended order subject to Section 5505's time limits because it added a penalty that was discretionary, rather than mandatory, under statute
citation_a.sentence: See also In the Interest of K.R.B., 851 A.2d 914 (Pa.Super.2004) (finding an amended order subject to Section 5505’s time limits because it added a penalty that was discretionary, rather than mandatory, under statute).
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.parenthetical: recognizing respective challenges of an illegal, patently contradictory, or fraudulently procured sentence as excepted from the jurisdictional time limit imposed by Section 5505
citation_b.sentence: Commonwealth v. Santone, 757 A.2d 963 (Pa.Super.2000); Commonwealth v. Quinlan, 433 Pa.Super. 111, 639 A.2d 1235, 1239 (1994) (recognizing respective challenges of an illegal, patently contradictory, or fraudulently procured sentence as excepted from the jurisdictional time limit imposed by Section 5505).