Legal Opinion
Mickens-Thomas v. Commonwealth, Board of Probation & Parole
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided August 12, 1997PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MIRARCHI, Jr., Senior Judge.
Before this Court is a motion for peremptory judgment and summary relief filed by Louis Miekens-Thomas (Thomas), a sixty-eight year old inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, in his action in mandamus against the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole and its chairman (collectively, Board).
On November 26, 1996, Thomas filed a petition for review in the nature of an action in mandamus invoking this Court’s original jurisdiction. The following facts alleged by Thomas are undisputed. In 1993, while serving a term of life imprisonment for his…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Weaver v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1997
- Pennsylvania Dental Ass'n v. Commonwealth Insurance DepartmentSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
- West Penn Power Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility CommissionCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
- Commonwealth v. CampbellSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1993
- Wilder v. Department of CorrectionsCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1996
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CoulversonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
- Myers v. RidgeCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
- Mickens-Thomas v. VaughnCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2003
- Evans v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
- Finnegan v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & ParoleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
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