Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 12, 2011No. 116 M.D. 2007PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
Judge BROBSON.
Before this Court is a petition for review filed in our original jurisdiction by Darryl Powell (Powell), pro se, seeking a writ of mandamus compelling the Department of Corrections (Department) to recalculate his prison sentence. Powell has filed an application for summary relief. For the reasons that follow, we grant Powell’s application.
Powell, formerly incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas (SCI-Dallas), was paroled from the Department’s custody on August 31, 2009. On July 1, 2002, Powell was sentenced in three separate criminal actions in the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Hill v. United States Ex Rel. WamplerSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- McCray v. Pennsylvania Department of CorrectionsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
- Commonwealth v. QuinlanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
- Commonwealth v. IsabellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
- Barndt v. Pennsylvania Department of CorrectionsCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2006
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HerediaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
- Commonwealth v. BorrinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2013
- Darryl Powell v. Ralph WeissCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2014
- R.C. Comrie v. PA DOC and PBPP, etc.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2016
- Sturgis v. DoeCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
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