Hufmen v. Board of Probation & Parole

OPINION BY

President Judge PELLEGRINI.

Hibeeb Hufmen (Petitioner) petitions for review of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole’s (Board) denial of his request for administrative relief from its previous order recommitting him as a convicted parole violator to serve six months backtime for pleading guilty to a summary charge of retail theft. Because a conviction of only a summary offense, whether before a magisterial district judge or a common pleas judge, is not alone a sufficient basis to recommit a parolee as a convicted parole violator, we reverse the Board’s order.

On September 12,…