*1 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, No. 350 EAL 2014
Respondent
Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Superior Court v.
KAREEM BARNES,
Petitioner
ORDER PER CURIAM
AND NOW , this 18th day of September, 2015, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED LIMITED TO the issues set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all remaining issues. The issues, rephrased for clarity, are:
(1) Whether a challenge to a sentence pursuant to Alleyne v. United States,
133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013) , implicates the legality of the sentence and is therefore non-waivable.
(2) Whether contemporaneous convictions of possession with intent to
deliver, pursuant to 35 Pa.C.S. § 780-113, and possession of a firearm prohibited, pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S. § 6105, allow application of the mandatory minimum sentence found at 42 Pa.C.S. § 9712.1 in light of our decision in Commonwealth v. Hopkins, ___ A.3d ___, 2015 Pa.LEXIS 1282 (decided June 15, 2015) .