Commonwealth v. Mann

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that if defendant is incarcerated prior to disposition on new charges and has both a parole board detainer and has failed for any reason to satisfy bail on new charges, credit for time served must be applied to new sentence as sentencing condition by sentencing court
• reiterating that the Department of Corrections, as an executive agency, “has no power to change sentences, or to add or remove sentencing conditions including credit for time served; this power is vested in the sentencing court”
• stating that where a “defendant is incarcerated prior to disposition, and has both a detainer and has failed for any reason to satisfy bail, the credit must be applied to the new sentence by the sentencing court” (citations omitted)
• “[A]ll time served by a parole violator while awaiting disposition on new charges must be credited to the original sentence if he or she remains in custody solely on a Board detainer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-08-16· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-02-26· cited 101×
• Evans v. Secretary Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
  Third Circuit· 2011-05-16· cited 69×
• Com. of Pa. v. Gibbs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-03-19· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Ellsworth
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-12· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Tolano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-05-25· cited 2×
• Evans v. SECRETARY PENN. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS
  Third Circuit· 2011-05-16· cited 1×
• Com. v. Toland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-05-25

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Fowler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-23· cited 444×
• Gaito v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-20· cited 417×
• Martin v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-30· cited 239×
• McCray v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-27· cited 178×
• Armbruster v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-03-13· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-29· cited 113×
• Rodriques v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 36×
• Berry v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-07-13· cited 13×
• Melhorn v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-30· cited 13×
• Melhorn v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-30· cited 11×