· 12/21/1979
Young v. Com. Bd. of Probation and Parole
Citations
- 409 A.2d 843
- 487 Pa. 428
- 1979 Pa. LEXIS 803
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the Board properly denied a parolee credit on his sentence for time spent on parole where his “street time” was marked with delinquency and failure to comply with conditions of parole
- holding that the Board properly denied a parolee credit on his sentence for time spent on parole where his \street time\ was marked with delinquency and failure to comply with conditions of parole
- holding that the Board properly denied a parolee credit on 428,437,409 his sentence for time spent on parole where his \street time\ was marked with delinquency and failure to comply with conditions of parole
- concluding that “a denial of credit does not constitute an enhancement of a sentence so as to raise federal constitutional implications” and citing with approval Pennsylvania cases holding that the denial of credit does not contravene the ex post facto clause
- explaining that the Board’s recalculation of sentence of convicted parole violator is “not an encroachment upon the judicial sentencing power”
- explaining that the Board’s recalculation of a CPV’s sentence “is not an encroachment upon the judicial sentencing power”
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Judges: Eagen, Flaherty, Larsen, Manderino, Nix, O'Brien, Roberts
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