Sharp v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

Petitioner Irvin Sharp has filed a petition for review with this Court challenging a decision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board). The Board revoked petitioner’s parole and recommitted him to prison as a convicted parole violator.

In April of 1976, petitioner was sentenced to a term of three to ten years of imprisonment on a charge of robbery, and was released on parole from that conviction on July 11, 1979. On December 29, 1979, he was arrested in Philadelphia on new criminal charges which included robbery, theft, and possession of an…