Bright v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

How courts have described this case

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• holding that inmate was not entitled to have time- credit applied to each of ten concurrent sentences for unrelated robberies; credit could only be applied once to one sentence
• “A writ of mandamus will lie to compel the Department of Corrections to properly compute a prisoner’s prison sentence.”
• Section 9760(4) mandates that credit for time served on a sentence can only be granted when it has not already been credited toward another sentence
• time credit on a sentence may only be granted when it has not already been applied to another sentence
• inmate was not entitled to have credit for presentence time applied to each of ten concurrent sentences for unrelated robberies; credit could be applied only once to one sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).