the appellate court until almost three years later. It was not until another six months later that the appellate court remanded the case. However, the remand was solely to determine whether Lee was still in custody. It then took almost a year for the lower court to reinstate its dismissal. As far as we know the appellate court still has not ruled on this dismissal. The arguments made in Petitioner’s initial PCRA petition have still not been considered by any court. This ping-pong game the state court was playing with Lee’s petition would almost be comical if Lee had not been in custody this entire time awaiting resolution. In deciding whether a delay is excessive, we do consider the degree of progress made in state court. See, e.g., Cristin v. Brennan, 281 F.3d 404, 411 (3d Cir.2002) (<HOLDING>). In this case, however, we do not believe that
holding that a 13 month delay was unreasonable holding that a six month delay was unreasonable holding that a five month delay was unreasonable holding that a 14 month delay was unreasonable holding that a 27 month delay was not excessive given that a hearing was held and the petition was ruled upon