Virgilio Sanchez, a/k/a Roberto Molino, appeals pro se from the trial court's order dismissing, as untimely, his fifth petition filed pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA), 42 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 9541 - 9546. After review, we affirm.

In 1997, Sanchez was convicted of first-degree murder 1 and possessing an instrument of crime (PIC), 2 after shooting and fatally wounding the victim, execution-style, in a Philadelphia bar. Sanchez was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, plus a consecutive term of 2½ to 5 years in prison for PIC. He filed an unsuccessful direct appeal, Co mmonwealth v. Molino , No. 4770 Phila. 1997 , 742 A.2d 207 (Pa. Super. filed June 1, 1999) (unpublished memorandum), and, on January 13, 2000, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied his petition for allowance of appeal. Sanchez filed five PCRA petitions in November 2006, November 2007, July 2010, March 2013, and the instant petition, on April 17, 2017. On December 1, 2017, the trial court issued Pa.R.Crim.P. 907 notice of its intent to dismiss Sanchez's meritless and untimely petition, without a hearing, within 20 days. The notice also advised Sanchez of his right to file a response within 20 days; he did not file a response. On January 11, 2018, the court dismissed *526 Sanchez's fifth petition as untimely. Sanchez filed a timely notice of appeal and court-ordered Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) concise statement of errors complained of on appeal.

On appeal, Sanchez raises one issue for our consideration: Did the court err in determining that [Sanchez] failed to invoke an exception to the timeliness requirements o[f] the PCRA[?] Appellant's Brief, at 4.

Generally, a petition for PCRA relief, including a second or subsequent petition, must be filed within one year of the date the judgment is final. See 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9545(b)(3) ; see also Commonwealth v. Alcorn , 703 A.2d 1054 (Pa. Super. 1997). There are, however, exceptions to the time requirement; those exceptions are set forth at 42 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 9545(b)(1)(i),(ii), and (iii) and include interference by government officials in the presentation of the claim, after-discovered facts or evidence, and an after-recognized constitutional right. See Commonwealth v. Gamboa-Taylor , 562 Pa. 70 , 753 A.2d 780 , 783 (2000). Where the petition alleges, and the petitioner proves, that an exception to the time for filing the petition is met, the petition will be considered timely. A PCRA petition invoking one of these exceptions must "be filed within 60 days of the date the claims could have been presented." Id. ; see also 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9545(b)(2). 3 The timeliness requirements of the PCRA are jurisdictional in nature and, accordingly, a PCRA court cannot hear untimely petitions. Commonwealth v. Robinson , 575 Pa. 500 , 837 A.2d 1157 (2003).

In his petition, which he acknowledges is patently untimely 4 under the PCRA, Sanchez alleges that Philadelphia Detective George Pirrone may have done "shady work in [his] case" based on a Pennsylvania Law Weekly article that he read in the prison library. Specifically, Sanchez alleges a "newly-discovered fact" under section 9545(b)(1)(ii) of the PCRA, saves his untimely petition from the well-established filing deadline. The timeliness exception set forth in section 9545(b)(1)(ii) requires a petitioner to demonstrate he did not know the facts upon which he based his petition and could not have learned of those facts earlier by the exercise of due diligence. Due diligence demands that the petitioner take reasonable steps to protect his own interests; a petitioner must explain why he could not have learned the new facts earlier with the exercise of due diligence. Commonwealth v. Brown , 111 A.3d 171 , 176 (Pa. Super. 2015).

The "newly-discovered fact" Sanchez alleges is that on April 21, 2016, a jury found Detective Pirrone liable for malicious prosecution *527 and false arrest. See Alleyne v. Pirrone , 2017 WL 729858 , 2017 Phila. Ct. Com. Pl. LEXIS 28 (filed Feb. 1, 2017). 5 Despite his claims that he successfully pled and proved a section 9545(b)(1)(ii) exception, Sanchez is misguided.

First, Sanchez does not explain how the facts regarding Pirrone's civil judgments could not have been ascertained sooner by the exercise of due diligence. 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9545(b)(1)(ii). Second, Sanchez did not file his petition until April 17, 2017, almost one year after Pirrone was found liable. Thus, he does not meet the 60-day time requirement under section 9545(b)(2), and the PCRA court did not have the power to address the substantive merits of Sanchez's PCRA claims. Brown , supra . Thus, the PCRA court properly dismissed Sanchez's petition as untimely. 6

Order affirmed.