Commonwealth v. Mears

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• recognizing that a trial court has no lawful authority to impose parole conditions on a state sentence
• vacating portion of sentencing order providing for random searches of the defendant’s residence upon parole
• vacating in part judgment of sentence ordering random searches, where Parole Department had exclusive jurisdiction of the conditions of defendant’s parole
• finding challenge to the trial court’s “statutory authority for the imposition of a condition of sentence, [] is a challenge to the legality of the sentence”
• stating a defendant’s challenge to the trial court’s lack of “statutory authority for the imposition of a condition of sentence … is a challenge to the legality of the sentence.”
• vacating portion of sentence imposing conditions upon appellant’s parole; affirming balance of sentence, which appellant did not challenge on appeal; and declining to remand for resentencing where this Court did not disturb appellant’s aggregate -7- J-S42024-25 sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).