Legal Opinion

Dorsey v. BD. OF PROBATION AND PAROLE

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 23, 1990No. 727 C.D. 1989PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CRAIG, Judge.

James Dorsey appeals an order of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole which denied his administrative appeal from the board’s order recommitting him to serve five months of backtime as a technical parole violator (TPY). We affirm.

In 1988, while on parole, Dorsey violated his conditions of parole by testing positive for morphine use and by receiving a conviction for theft-by-deception.

After a revocation/violation hearing, the board recommitted Dorsey on May 27, 1988 to serve twelve months as a convicted parole violator (CPV) on the theft-by-deception conviction, and…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Chapman v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  2. Commonwealth v. ReedSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  3. LaCourt v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  4. Harper v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
  5. Larkin v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1989

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Goodwine v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2008
  2. Siers v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
  3. Commonwealth v. Camacho-Vasquez, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lebanon County2007
  4. J.M. Britton v. PA BPPCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2016

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