McKenzie v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

Lawrence McKenzie petitions for review of a decision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) denying his administrative appeal of a Board order recommitting him as a technical parole violator to serve 15 months’ backtime. On appeal, McKenzie asserts the Board violated his right to due process by failing to provide a final hearing prior to parole revocation and by utilizing improper procedures for obtaining waivers of hearings and counsel. We affirm.

In May 2007, the Board paroled McKenzie from a seven-year sentence for aggravated assault, resisting…