Commonwealth v. Ortega

How courts have described this case

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

• referring to this standard as “the Commonwealth’s burden of proof in establishing a probation violation”
• “The scope of review in an appeal following a sentence imposed after probation [or parole] revocation is limited to the validity of the revocation proceedings and the legality of the sentence imposed following revocation.”
• “courts of this Commonwealth have long rejected the notion that the sentence of an absconder or delinquent parolee continues to run, as if it were being served, to the point of expiring on its scheduled expiration date”
• “the courts of this Commonwealth have long rejected the notion that the sentence of an absconder or delinquent parolee continues to run, as -3- J-A14018-24 if it were being served, to the point of expiring on its scheduled expiration date”
• Stevens, Mundy, and McEwen, JJ.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).